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

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Mon Mar 7 11:49:24 CET 2011 
On 7/03/2011 9:33 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> That sounds like a fairly cool idea. So if I follow what you're
> suggesting, we'd have a single python.exe, probably installed in
> system32, which did the necessary command line juggling and shebang
> parsing, then simply redirected to the appropriate Python interpreter?
> Presumably that launcher would be pretty version independent, so (a)
> the one that gets installed with Python 3.3 would support older
> versions even though they didn't include the launcher themselves, (b)
> overwriting the launcher when a new version of Python is installed
> wouldn't be too big a deal, and (c) it could be released as a
> standalone package for people with only older versions of Python
> installed?

Yup - although I think a pythonw.exe launcher would be needed too (for 
the same reasons we need python.exe and pythonw.exe today)

> I like this idea. If I had the spare time (I don't :-() I'd work on this myself.
>
> +1 from me.

Cool - I may have a go at this over the next few weekends... :)

Cheers,

Mark
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