[Python-Dev] Bilingual scripts (original) (raw)

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Sat May 25 12:17:06 CEST 2013

On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 17:57 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

I think the simplest thing to do is just append the "3" to the binary name (as we do ourselves for pydoc) and then abide by the recommendations in PEP 394 to reference the correct system executable.

I'm curious if folks have other concrete examples of global bindir executables other than nosetests and pydoc that need to be disambiguated by Python version. I'd hate to see it become standard practice to append "3" to scripts generated by packages which happen to use Python 3, as it will just sort of perpetuate its otherness.

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