The current Ubuntu long-term support release is Xenial, which comes with only Python 3 installed. If you're talking about Trusty, its support is ending fairly soon.
On Xenial, you have to separately install an optional package for Python 2. When you try to run /usr/bin/python on a fresh Xenial install, it'll tell you that you need to install a package such as python-minimal==2.7.11, whereas /usr/bin/python3 is already there.
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The current Ubuntu long-term support release is Xenial, which comes with only Python 3 installed. If you're talking about Trusty, its support is ending fairly soon.
On Xenial, you have to separately install an optional package for Python 2. When you try to run /usr/bin/python on a fresh Xenial install, it'll tell you that you need to install a package such as python-minimal==2.7.11, whereas /usr/bin/python3 is already there.
Woops, my LTS is obviously out of date. Thanks.