I would like to know if there is any Linux distribution where you can easily install and use Python 3. This means a distribution that will provide not only Python 3 binaries and updates but also python modules.
I know that probably we are not going to see any python 3 as the default python interpretor so soon but at least I would like to see latest 2.x as default (2.6+) one and the alternative one already installed.
Probably it is a question between major distributions: Ubuntu, Fedora or Suse?
Ubuntu 10.04 comes by default w/ Python 2.6.5, but the following python 3 packages are in the standard repositories as well:
python3 python3.1-minimal python3-dev python3.0 python3.1-profiler python3-doc python3.1 python3.1-tk python3-examples python3.1-celementtree python3.1-wsgiref python3-gdbm python3.1-cjkcodecs python3.2 python3-gdbm-dbg python3.1-ctypes python3-all python3-minimal python3.1-dbg python3-all-dbg python3-pkg-resources python3.1-dev python3-all-dev python3-profiler python3.1-doc python3-bsddb python3-setuptools python3.1-elementtree python3-bsddb3 python3-tk python3.1-examples python3-bsddb3-dbg python3-tk-dbg python3.1-gdbm python3-dbg
For the rest you'll have to rely on easy_install and pip (of course, after manually installing them). hth
I think most distros have it. Debian has it so all derived distros (Ubuntu et. all) do. Fedora as well. It's just that it's not used for the standard system utilities so just typing python will give you a 2.x interpreter.
Gentoo has Python3 (I have 2.6.4-r1 and 3.1.2-r3 installed, 2.6 being the default). A quick search reveals that ebuilds of python libraries tested on both 2.x and 3.x have already been built for both versions on my machine (thank God for python-updater, obviously).
Gentoo + Python developing is a very nice combination (if you do like the way Gentoo works, that is).