Use python3 as the canonical command name course-wide (#104)
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Most current systems (default Debian/Ubuntu, recent macOS) install Python
only as `python3`, with no bare `python` on PATH, so learners who copied
`python cli.py ...` into their host shell hit "command not found".

Convert host-shell `python <cmd>` -> `python3 <cmd>` across module/lab
READMEs, lab `.py` docstrings & usage strings, blog posts, lab prompt and
instruction files, the M04 verify.sh message, and the M10/M24 lab patches.
Module 01's convention note (and its blog/02 mirror) is rewritten so
`python3` is canonical and `python` is the documented fallback.

Stop-lines respected: Docker image tags (`python:3.12-slim`), `.venv/.../python`
and `...\.venv\Scripts\python.exe` paths, the M20 `"command": "python"`
teaching example and surrounding venv prose, container-internal invocations
(M16/M18 Dockerfiles, M16 README `docker run` examples), and CI-workflow
`run:` steps fed by `actions/setup-python` / `image: python:3.12` are left
as `python` on purpose.

pip was left out of scope: most occurrences are prose or CI/container-internal,
and `pip3` does not fix the PEP 668 externally-managed-environment refusal that
the course already addresses with venvs. The M01 note is worded to stay
consistent with bare `pip` (use whichever pip pairs with your Python).

Build (tools/build_wiki.py) and tools/check.sh both pass.

Closes #104

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GAEzanEoGJT5o1VizQar47
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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
"""Tiny command-line front end for the demo task app.
Run it:
python cli.py add "write the lesson"
python cli.py list
python cli.py count
python3 cli.py add "write the lesson"
python3 cli.py list
python3 cli.py count
State is kept in tasks.json next to this file. Same minimal app from Modules 1 and 2, with a
`count` command bolted on.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def save(tlist: TaskList) -> None:
def main(argv: list[str]) -> int:
tlist = load()
if not argv:
print("usage: python cli.py [add <title> | list | done <index> | count]")
print("usage: python3 cli.py [add <title> | list | done <index> | count]")
return 1
command = argv[0]