Switch Python Version for Vim & Syntastic

Question

Is it possible to change the python version used by syntastic for syntax checking?

As the Issue https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/issues/385 indicates I could

Answer 1

Easiest solution:

 let g:syntastic_python_python_exec = 'python3'
 let g:syntastic_python_checkers = ['python']

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