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Try using the update-alternatives command so that "python" becomes<br>
symbolically linked to python-3.4 rather than python-2.7.9<br>
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Or uninstall python 2.7.9.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The standard Python distribution for versions 3 or greater installs a binary called `python3`, not `python`.  That is the standard.  If you are running Python3 from a binary called `python`, that is not standard.  I know that distros do this (or can do it with tweaking); but that doesn't make it standard.  If you want to be sure you're getting Python3, you should look for a binary called `python3`.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Does FindPython not have logic to check the versioned pythonx.y alternatives when doing these checks?  Why isn't it checking the python3 and python3.x commands in this circumstance?</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Have you tried the FindPython I referenced above?  It would solve the problems you brought to this thread (and maybe even some you didn't yet know you have).</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div></div></div></div>