Re: [PATCH] Standardize python shebangs

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On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Johan Herland wrote:
>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Felipe Contreras
>> <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > It's better if all our scripts use the same '/usr/bin/env python'.
>>
>> Only if they are source compatible with both Python2 and Python3. See
>> PEP394 <URL: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ >. Otherwise
>> (for python2-only scripts) '/usr/bin/env python2' is the way to go.
>
> It doesn't matter. People and aistributions have to change them anyway.

No, that's _exactly_ what PEP394 addresses. If we standardize on
'/usr/bin/env python2' (I assume all our .py scripts are Python2) then
they should work on _all_ distros, and Arch Linux would not have to do
their current python -> python2 hack (which you referred in another
thread).

If we instead standardize on '/usr/bin/env python' instead, we only
end up annoying forward-looking distros that (want to) enable python
== python3 (but obviously also provide python2 for as long as
necessary).

...Johan

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