Question
Ubuntu 16.04 wrong default Python version
- Posted on May 11, 2016
- DigitalOceanPythonUbuntu 16.04
Asked by sugarhill
Ubuntu 16.04 made Python 3 the new standard, while Python 2 shouldn’t even be installed by default.
On my 16.04 droplet version 2.7 starts up by default, v3 is also there but it has to be called specifically.
Just wondering why DigitalOcean changed the default version back to 2.7 Is there a specific reason for this?
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RESOLVED: DO image of 16.04 doesn’t include any python version by default
After retracing all steps I noticed Lets’s Encrypt SSL installer includes Python v2.7 (facepalm)
just installed another 16.04 image for testing and now python is not included at all well, I guess this was an isolated incidence then
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