Possible stupid question

~/code/flytekit git:[issue-6463] make setup
# pip 22.1 broke pip-tools: <https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools/issues/1617>
python -m pip install -U pip-tools setuptools wheel "pip>=22.0.3,!=22.1"
/bin/sh: python: command not found
make: *** [install-piptools] Error 127

Are folks just expected to

alias python=python3

?

I use

sudo apt install python-is-python3

for this