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On some systems I find that python is not a defined command, but python3 is. Since Python 2 is no longer supported, and will hopefully become scarcer in dependencies, we can assume that python represents the latest installed Python.

Assuming python3 is defined, we can define our alias in a permanent way by:

  1. Open config: vim ~/.bashrc
  2. Add the line alias python='python3'
  3. Save and exit (:wq)
  4. Run . ~/.bashrc from home.
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