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Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) to Switch to Python 3.5 Ahead of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Canonical plans on switching to the Python 3.5 dynamic programming language as the default Python 3 version of the upcoming Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) operating system. Barry Warsaw reports that work has started on rebuilding Ubuntu packages that depend on the Python 3 for the i386 (32-bit) and amd64 (64-bit) architectures in a separate PPA (Personal Package Archive). At the moment, only a partial rebuild was done for the x86 architecture, but everything looks normal.

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