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Whoa boy, is it ever, but maybe not for the reason you're thinking. ie it isn't caused by people typing `apt-get install python`.

There are many packages that have Python as a dependency these days. For example, on my Ubuntu system:

> ~$ apt-cache rdepends python|wc -l

> 4649

I think the best illustration of how this can happen is installing postgres libraries needed to build the psycopg2 PG client. If you know to install `libpq-dev` then you're great. But if you do something that on the surface feels totally reasonable, like installing the `postgresql-client` package... guess what? You just installed another Python interpreter.

edit: formatting



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