[Python-Dev] PEP 441 - Improving Python ZIP Application Support (original) (raw)

Petr Viktorin encukou at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 17:15:54 CET 2015

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

So the usage would be something like

python -m zipapp [options] dirtozip Options: -p The interpreter to use on the shebang line (defaulting to /usr/bin/env python)

On many systems this default would mean Python 2. Even if the official recommendation changes for 3.5, the status quo might linger for a few years. On the other hand, the number of distros that don't ship Python 3 is small, and the reason they're slow-moving tends to be stability and/or compliance, so they're not the target audience for zipapp. And the python3 symlink is not going away any time soon. So I'd suggest /usr/bin/env python3 for the default.

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