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You can install the [python-is-python3][0] package on 20.04, which symlinks /usr/bin/python to python3.

[0]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/python-is-python3

I saw that, but it's not the default setting. You can't just write a python script and expect it to work on Ubuntu without putting python3 in the shebang.

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