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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 23:25:50 CET 2011 
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Mar 04, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
>>Actually, my post was saying that these two can be decoupled.  ie: It's
>>possible to not have /usr/bin/python while still allowing users to type
>>python at a shell prompt and get the interpreter.
>>
>>This is done by either redefining the PATH to include the directory that the
>>interpreter named "python" is in or by creating an alias for python to the
>>proper interpreter.
>
> I personally would prefer aliasing rather than $PATH manipulation.

Toshio's suggestion wouldn't work anyway - the "/usr/bin/env python"
idiom will pick up a "python" alias no matter where it lives on $PATH.

Cheers,
Nick.

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