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[Python-Dev] [PEPs] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Mon Mar 7 06:34:54 CET 2011 
On 7/03/2011 4:34 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Mark Hammond<skippy.hammond at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Without putting too much thought into it, I think a simple scheme could work
>> where the path must either be "/usr/bin/python[23]?" or a fully-qualified
>> path to a Python executable.  IIUC, this should allow most scripts to have a
>> shebang line that "does the right thing" on *nix and Windows systems while
>> still offering maximum flexibility on Windows.
>
> Such a scheme should be able to handle "/usr/bin/env python2" and
> variants as well.

Agreed - that is just my ignorance showing through :)

Cheers,

Mark
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