Python default version

[Mark Moll]

> On Mar 12, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> The python portgroup defaults to version 2.7, and in ports that have python variants, I've used that version by default as well.
> 
> I was reminded by the members of the MacPorts meeting that it has been announced that python 2's end-of-life will be in 2020, which is coming up.
> 
> Should we change the default python version to 3.6 now, or soon?
> 

+1.

Many Linux flavors have also switched in their latest release to 3.6 (or are in this process of switching). I can’t think of any major python package that doesn’t work with python 3.6. I have been using “+python36” as a default variant on my machine without any issues.

Mark

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