[Python-Dev] [PEPs] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Mar 4 20:14:35 CET 2011

Is there any discussion still going on about the details of the PEP (now PEP 394)? I'm in favor of the general idea. What about Windows? I think it should be the same there if possible.

The only thing I note is that the PEP doesn't explicitly state (unless I missed it) that "python" should invoke the same Python binary as either "python2" or "python3" and not some other version of Python {2,3}.x (at least not until python4 is being considered :-). Similarly, python2 and python3 should refer to one of the existing python2.x or python3.x binary and not some other one.

-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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