[Python-Dev] #!/usr/bin/env python --> python3 where applicable

[Benjamin Peterson]

2009/4/18 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>> 2009/4/18 Mitchell L Model <MLMLists at comcast.net>:
>>> Some library files, such as pdb.py, begin with
>>>        #!/usr/bin/env python
>>> In various discussions regarding some issues I submitted I was told that the
>>> decision had been made to call Python 3.x release executables python3. (One
>>> of the conflicts I ran into when I made 'python' a link to python3.1 was
>>> that some tools used in making the HTML documentation haven't been upgraded
>>> to run with 3.)
>>>
>>> Shouldn't all library files that begin with the above line be changed so
>>> that they read 'python3' instead of python? Perhaps I should have just filed
>>> this as an issue, but I'm not confident of the state of the plan to move to
>>> python3 as the official executable name.
>>
>> That sounds correct. Please file a bug report.
>
> As Kevin pointed out, while this is a problem, changing the affected
> scripts to say "python3" instead isn't the right answer.
>
> All that happened with the Python 3 installers is that they do
> 'altinstall' rather than 'fullinstall' by default, thus leaving the
> 'python' alias alone. There is no "python3" alias unless a user creates
> it for themselves (or a distro packager does it for them).

I've actually implemented a python3 alias for 3.1.

>
> I see a few options:
> 1. Abandon the "python" name for the 3.x series and commit to calling it
> "python3" now and forever (i.e. actually make the decision that Mitchell
> refers to).

I believe this was decided on sometime (the sprints?).



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Regards,
Benjamin