On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:53:20PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 10:17 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > Far better to encourage people to explicitly use /usr/bin/python2 and > > /usr/bin/python3 explicitly and discourage any use of plain /usr/bin/python > > Note the GNOME discussion here: > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00005.html > > One ugly part is that Debian Wheezy does not have "python2". That > combined with the Arch Linux people who made /usr/bin/python = python3 > is a terrible mess for people who just want random portable scripts. > > For GNOME we decided to just try to ensure python2 always exists: > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2012-November/msg00017.html > <nod> These two concerns were reasons that PEP394 was written. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#rationale and CPython2's install was changed to create the python2 symlink: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/#application-to-the-cpython-reference-interpreter which should make it into Debian at some point. -Toshio
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