[Python-Dev] #!/usr/bin/env python --> python3 where applicable (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 15:04:27 CEST 2009


2009/4/19 Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com>:

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

2009/4/18 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:

I see a few options: 1. Abandon the "python" name for the 3.x series and commit to calling it "python3" now and forever (i.e. actually make the decision that Mitchell refers to).

I believe this was decided on sometime (the sprints?). That's an unfortunate decision. When the 2.X line stops being maintained (after 2.7 maybe?) we're going to be stuck with the "3" suffix forever for the "real" Python. Why doesn't it make more sense to just use "python3" only for "altinstall" and "python" for "fullinstall"?

Agreed. Personally, I'm -0 on this decision. I'd be -1 if I was a Linux user, or if I thought that it would be applied to Windows as well. As it is, my -0 is based on "it doesn't affect me, but it seems wrong to have the official name be different things depending on platform".

Paul.



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