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Arch's default is Python 3, but there are still many official Python 2 packages, mostly in community i.e. adopted from the AUR:

Core: 1

Extra: 96

Community: 822

AUR: Over 2300 depending on how you search

The official python recommendation is not to "default" the 'python' command as python3, and they should just explicitly be 'python' and 'python3'

This is what every distro except arch does (for whatever reason)

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/

But that should turn around NOW, comsidering 2020 will be EOL for Python2 (except for Redhat which will have to ride that dead horse for years to come).

RHEL 8 will ship with Python 3 as the default.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

What I was saying is that it's amazing Python 3 failed to gain any significant traction in 4 years. I personally have been using Python 3 since ~2010 but am apparently in a tiny minority on that.

Ubuntu 18.04 ships with Python 3.6 and no python2