From 66f66d7d96bc2596acaa6e36ac30483bded3d01a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 22:23:59 +0200
Subject: Even though /usr/bin/virtualenv is a Python 3 script now, in

 Debian we still want to default to using Python 2 unless the -p/--python
 argument is given.
Forwarded: not-needed

Patch-Name: python2-default.patch
---
 virtualenv.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/virtualenv.py b/virtualenv.py
index 0e1d03f..61fe544 100755
--- a/virtualenv.py
+++ b/virtualenv.py
@@ -548,9 +548,10 @@ def main():
         '-p', '--python',
         dest='python',
         metavar='PYTHON_EXE',
+        default='python2',
         help='The Python interpreter to use, e.g., --python=python2.5 will use the python2.5 '
-        'interpreter to create the new environment.  The default is the interpreter that '
-        'virtualenv was installed with (%s)' % sys.executable)
+        'interpreter to create the new environment.  The default is the python2 '
+        'interpreter on your path (e.g. /usr/bin/python2)')
 
     parser.add_option(
         '--clear',