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4,048 PointsWhat is the difference between using "python" and "python3" when running your script in the terminal?
Both of these options return the same thing in the terminal.
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Uhunoma Osula
6,414 PointsIn a typical installation, "python" is a command alias for "python3" so they do exactly the same thing.
The numbered versions are primarily for when someone has other versions installed. Version 3 is the current one and the only version used by the courses you will find here.
Tate Price
Courses Plus Student 9,987 Pointsalso, some Unicode emojis seem to have issues in the older versions of Python.