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

Jared Grubb jared.grubb at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 20:22:37 CEST 2009


On 19 Apr 2009, at 02:17, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Nick Coghlan writes:

3. Change the shebang lines in Python standard library scripts to be version specific and update release.py to fix them all when bumping the version number in the source tree. +1 I think that it's probably best to leave "python", "python2", and "python3" for the use of downstream distributors. ISTR that was what Guido concluded, in the discuss that led to Python 3 defaulting to altinstall---it wasn't just convenient because Python 3 is a major change, but that experience has shown that deciding which Python is going to be "The python" on somebody's system just isn't a decision that Python should make.

Ok, so if I understand, the situation is:

So, if I got the situation right, then do these same scripts
understand that PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME and all the others are also
probably pointing to 2.x code?

Jared



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