Deprecation: Python 2.7 [SOLVED]

[Black Swordsman]

So I am working on teaching myself python and have just been learning about virtualenv and how it can help to make things more stable when working with different versions of things but when I had set it up I had received the message

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DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7.

Is there a way that I can set up pip and virtualenv to default to Python 3.6 (which is already pre-installed onto mint)?

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[deepakdeshp]

If you want to use the 3.6 version, use it as the first shebang line in your script.
https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Shebang
Your first line would be
#!/usr/bin/python3.6

[Black Swordsman]

I do not think that I am understanding you...do you mean my first line in whatever code that I am writing? or do you mean that I need to put that into terminal whenever I go to use Virtualenv?

[AndyMH]

my first line in whatever code that I am writing

Yes

Is there a way that I can set up pip

Have you installed python3-pip? If so, then instead of typing pip install xyz in a terminal, it is pip3 install xyz.

[deepakdeshp]

I do not think that I am understanding you...do you mean my first line in whatever code that I am writing? or do you mean that I need to put that into terminal whenever I go to use Virtualenv?

That should be the first line in your script not in terminal. The link explain it

[Black Swordsman]

Okay thank you, I think I understand now