Re: python-mode: Why python-interpreter defaults to "python" instead of looking for python/python3

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 at 11:29, Martín Fernández wrote:

> What do you think? Do you know what the history is for the logic on
> the interpreter variable and why it wasn't implemented on the cmdline
> variable?

I've included Glen, who implemented the logic in bug#45655.  I now see
that in that ticket Stefan made exactly the same points I made here.
Namely:

>>>> IMO the logic to choose `python-shell-interpreter' is misguided.  The
>>>> default value should be just "python", since if you are doing anything
>>>> with Python and "python" doesn't point to the right version, then you
>>>> are in trouble anyway.  OTOH, if you really need to work with Python 2
>>>> and symlink "python" accordingly then the current default proactively
>>>> puts you in trouble.
>>>>
>>>> Personally I'd be happy to see a patch fixing
>>>> `python-shell-interpreter'.