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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 21:53:52 CET 2015

On 17 February 2015 at 18:56, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

The initial draft of this PEP proposed using /usr/bin/env python as the default interpreter. The other reasonable alternative for a default shebang is sys.executable.

That's instantly non-portable. On my PC, it'd give C:\Apps\Python34\python.exe. Which won't work on Unix, or on PCs that use the standard install location, or when I upgrade to Python 3.5...

Paul

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