Will pip ever point at python3 as opposed to using pip3?

Question

Will I ever find pip to be installing resources for python 3 in the way that pip3 does? I've been making the assumption that when an upgrade to default to python 3 occurs, pip would also be pointed at python 3 resources, but recently went to use a python 3 only docker container built on Red Hat's UBI 8 (I believe) and found pip unavailable and pip3 the only available.

It is an easy fix, but I'm trying to understand the developers intent.

Answer 1

That is distribution specific.

On Arch Linux it already does, on CentOS/Red Hat it does not. PEP394 recommends that python3 and pip3 be available but leaves it open to the distribution to provide plain python and friends (check the fourth bullet point).

Until now I have found that distributions follow the same logic with the pip command that they use for the python command.