It Will Take Fedora More Releases To Switch Off Python 2 (phoronix.com)

An anonymous reader quotes Phoronix: Finalizing Fedora's switch from Python 2 to Python 3 by default is still going to take several more Fedora release cycles and should be done by the 2020 date when Python 2 will be killed off upstream. While much of Fedora's Python code is now compatible with Py3, the /usr/bin/python still points to Python 2, various python-* packages still mean Python 2... The end game is to eventually get rid of Python 2 from Fedora but that is even further out.
Fedora is now gathering feedback on a Wiki page explaining the switch.

Comments

Re:add `python2` and deprecate `python`

[KiloByte]

/usr/bin/python is not going to ever point to python3 in Debian, at least according to the maintainer. Unfortunately, there are distros which have done this step.

Python 2 and Python 3 are similar but different languages, akin to Perl 5 and Perl 6. As they're not supposed to be compatible, changing the meaning of the hashbang is a recipe for disaster.