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@daj daj commented May 5, 2025

Description:

When following the instructions on macOS 15.4, after installing the recommended version of Python from python.org, I found that the Python 3 executable is python3, not python.

Some quick internet searching suggests that python3 is probably the most reliable command to run across multiple OSes.

I confirmed the command seems to work as expected:

% python3 -m http.server
Serving HTTP on :: port 8000 (http://[::]:8000/) ...
::1 - - [04/May/2025 23:10:46] "GET /my-test-vr.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -

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Simple docs change from python to python3.

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Update installation.md Python 3 command to python3
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When following the instructions on macOS, after installing the recommended version of Python from python.org, I found that the Python 3 executable is `python3`, not `python`.

Some quick internet searching suggests that `python3` is probably the most reliable command to run across multiple OSes.
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dmarcos commented May 5, 2025

@mrxz @vincentfretin Any thoughts?

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It's the same on latest ubuntu, at least on 22.04, there is no python alias anymore (that was pointing to python2), you need to execute python3 command or python2 explicitly.
I personally would get rid of the python -m SimpleHTTPServer completely in the doc now and only document the python3 -m http.server command. Python 2 end of life was January 1st, 2020.

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mrxz commented May 6, 2025

As far as I've encountered, it's common to have python3 and python2 for their respective versions, with python symlinking to the "default" one, though virtually always python 2 for backwards compatibility.

I agree with @vincentfretin that we should just list the python3 command and remove the old one.

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dmarcos commented May 6, 2025

@daj can we switch to python3 as described above?

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daj commented May 7, 2025

@dmarcos I updated it, please let me know if I need to make any other changes.

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dmarcos commented May 7, 2025

Thanks @dan and congrats on your first contribution 👏

@dmarcos dmarcos merged commit f47d94d into aframevr:master May 7, 2025
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