Re: Python Alternatives?

[Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com>]

It sounds like the status of the /usr/bin/python link is really a mess 
with some people/distros doing one thing and others doing something 
else.  I imagine it will settle down eventually to a commonly accepted 
standard.  For now, though, it looks like using either a python2 or 
python3 shebang, as necessary, is the way to be compatible with most 
systems, not using a python shebang at all, as you don't know where that 
is really pointing for sure.


On 12/15/2016 09:51 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:39:27AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > That would violate Debian Python policy. You are free to do it on your
> > > own system, but it will likely break many Python packages on Debian, and
> > > you get to keep all the pieces :-)
> >  From what I recall the upstream Python community does not suggest calling
> > Python 3 'python' either.
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ recommends that the python
> name be used for python2, but notes that some distributions have
> switched it to point to python3.  So the suggestion is that python2-only
> scripts should have an explicit python2 shebang, and only scripts that
> support both should have the python shebang.
>
> --
> regards,
> kushal

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