Re: Which python is recommended?

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Organization Snaggled Works
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/21/20 7:25 PM, Thomas Schneider wrote:
> Hanspeter
> 
>>>>   python3     3.8.0-1             Generic commands to invoke python38
>>>> ...
>>>>   python38    3.8.0-1             Interpreted, object-oriented language
>>
>> If I was starting from scratch, I would choose python38. It's the
>> latest release and will be supported the longest.
> 
> Why not select python3?  That is, what is the difference to Fink?

The Fink python3 package just creates convenience symlinks from a fully 
versioned python executable to python3. So instead of having to run 
'python3.8', you can just run 'python3'. You can have python37 and 
python38 installed at the same time, but only on version of 'python3' 
can be installed at any time (and it defaults to point to the latest 
python version=3.8.0 at this time).

Hanspeter


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