gh-98763: Prefer "python" over "python3" for command line examples in docs. (#98761)

5 files changed, 21 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/__main__.rst b/Doc/library/__main__.rst
index d0a65e7..6a2a7a7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/__main__.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/__main__.rst
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ The top-level code environment can be:
 
     .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-       $ python3 helloworld.py
+       $ python helloworld.py
        Hello, world!
 
 * the Python module or package passed to the Python interpreter with the
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@ The top-level code environment can be:
 
     .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-       $ python3 -m tarfile
+       $ python -m tarfile
        usage: tarfile.py [-h] [-v] (...)
 
 * Python code read by the Python interpreter from standard input:
 
     .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-       $ echo "import this" | python3
+       $ echo "import this" | python
        The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
 
        Beautiful is better than ugly.
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ The top-level code environment can be:
 
     .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-       $ python3 -c "import this"
+       $ python -c "import this"
        The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
 
        Beautiful is better than ugly.
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ that your function will return some value acceptable as an input to
 returned if your function does not have a return statement).
 
 By proactively following this convention ourselves, our module will have the
-same behavior when run directly (i.e. ``python3 echo.py``) as it will have if
+same behavior when run directly (i.e. ``python echo.py``) as it will have if
 we later package it as a console script entry-point in a pip-installable
 package.
 
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ directly from the command line using the :option:`-m` flag. For example:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-   $ python3 -m bandclass
+   $ python -m bandclass
 
 This command will cause ``__main__.py`` to run. How you utilize this mechanism
 will depend on the nature of the package you are writing, but in this
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ Now, if we started our program, the result would look like this:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-   $ python3 start.py
+   $ python start.py
    Define the variable `my_name`!
 
 The exit code of the program would be 1, indicating an error. Uncommenting the
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ status code 0, indicating success:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-   $ python3 start.py
+   $ python start.py
    Dinsdale found in file /path/to/start.py
 
 Note that importing ``__main__`` doesn't cause any issues with unintentionally
diff --git a/Doc/library/devmode.rst b/Doc/library/devmode.rst
index 44e7d4f..9777359 100644
--- a/Doc/library/devmode.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/devmode.rst
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Effects of the Python Development Mode
 Enabling the Python Development Mode is similar to the following command, but
 with additional effects described below::
 
-    PYTHONMALLOC=debug PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG=1 python3 -W default -X faulthandler
+    PYTHONMALLOC=debug PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG=1 python -W default -X faulthandler
 
 Effects of the Python Development Mode:
 
@@ -128,14 +128,14 @@ any warning. Example using README.txt, which has 269 lines:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-    $ python3 script.py README.txt
+    $ python script.py README.txt
     269
 
 Enabling the Python Development Mode displays a :exc:`ResourceWarning` warning:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-    $ python3 -X dev script.py README.txt
+    $ python -X dev script.py README.txt
     269
     script.py:10: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper name='README.rst' mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'>
       main()
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ opened:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-    $ python3 -X dev -X tracemalloc=5 script.py README.rst
+    $ python -X dev -X tracemalloc=5 script.py README.rst
     269
     script.py:10: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper name='README.rst' mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'>
       main()
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ By default, Python does not emit any warning:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-    $ python3 script.py
+    $ python script.py
     import os
 
 The Python Development Mode shows a :exc:`ResourceWarning` and logs a "Bad file
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ descriptor" error when finalizing the file object:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-    $ python3 script.py
+    $ python script.py
     import os
     script.py:10: ResourceWarning: unclosed file <_io.TextIOWrapper name='script.py' mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'>
       main()
diff --git a/Doc/library/faulthandler.rst b/Doc/library/faulthandler.rst
index be09123..07a7489 100644
--- a/Doc/library/faulthandler.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/faulthandler.rst
@@ -166,10 +166,10 @@ handler:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-    $ python3 -c "import ctypes; ctypes.string_at(0)"
+    $ python -c "import ctypes; ctypes.string_at(0)"
     Segmentation fault
 
-    $ python3 -q -X faulthandler
+    $ python -q -X faulthandler
     >>> import ctypes
     >>> ctypes.string_at(0)
     Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault
diff --git a/Doc/library/site.rst b/Doc/library/site.rst
index 5941739..4a88013 100644
--- a/Doc/library/site.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/site.rst
@@ -250,8 +250,8 @@ command line:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-   $ python3 -m site --user-site
-   /home/user/.local/lib/python3.3/site-packages
+   $ python -m site --user-site
+   /home/user/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages
 
 If it is called without arguments, it will print the contents of
 :data:`sys.path` on the standard output, followed by the value of
diff --git a/Doc/library/timeit.rst b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
index 660a546..5437704 100644
--- a/Doc/library/timeit.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/timeit.rst
@@ -27,11 +27,11 @@ can be used to compare three different expressions:
 
 .. code-block:: shell-session
 
-   $ python3 -m timeit '"-".join(str(n) for n in range(100))'
+   $ python -m timeit '"-".join(str(n) for n in range(100))'
    10000 loops, best of 5: 30.2 usec per loop
-   $ python3 -m timeit '"-".join([str(n) for n in range(100)])'
+   $ python -m timeit '"-".join([str(n) for n in range(100)])'
    10000 loops, best of 5: 27.5 usec per loop
-   $ python3 -m timeit '"-".join(map(str, range(100)))'
+   $ python -m timeit '"-".join(map(str, range(100)))'
    10000 loops, best of 5: 23.2 usec per loop
 
 This can be achieved from the :ref:`python-interface` with::