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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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Almost every CI configuration, on every forge, is the same four moves:
4. **Run the checks**: lint, then test. Any check that exits non-zero fails the whole run.
That last point is the load-bearing one. CI's entire enforcement mechanism is the **exit code**.
Every tool you'd run in a terminal returns 0 for success and non-zero for failure. `python -m
Every tool you'd run in a terminal returns 0 for success and non-zero for failure. `python3 -m
unittest` exits non-zero if a test fails. `ruff check` exits non-zero if it finds a lint problem. CI runs your
commands and watches those exit codes; one failure turns the run red. You're not learning a new
testing system; you're wiring the tools you already have to a trigger.
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ When CI goes red, the skill is triage, and it's fast once you know the shape:
3. **Read that step's log.** It's the same output the tool prints in your terminal: a failing
`unittest` assertion, a `ruff` finding with a file and line number. CI didn't invent a new error
format; it's showing you the command's own output.
4. **Reproduce it locally.** The same command from the failed step (`python -m unittest` or
4. **Reproduce it locally.** The same command from the failed step (`python3 -m unittest` or
`ruff check .`) fails the same way on your own machine, because CI ran exactly that command. That
reproducibility is the point: fix locally, confirm green locally, push again.
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ your machine first.
that CI is nothing more than these same two commands is what makes the rest of the module click.
```bash
python -m unittest # should report all tests passing
python3 -m unittest # should report all tests passing
ruff check . # should report no issues (or fix what it flags)
```
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ and watch CI stop it.
`git restore` (Module 12). What the agent runs looks like:
```bash
python -m unittest # fails locally too: same command, same failure
python3 -m unittest # fails locally too: same command, same failure
git revert --no-edit HEAD # new commit that undoes "Simplify pending()" (Module 12)
git push # CI re-runs on the fixed code and goes green again
```