#!/usr/bin/env python vs. #!/usr/bin/python

[Lou Pecora]

In article <A72dnRnGiotPr4bVnZ2dnUVZ_qTinZ2d at visi>,
 Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:

> On 2008-05-02, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy at druid.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 03 May 2008 00:44:00 +1000
> > Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> >> "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy at druid.net> writes:
> >> > As someone else pointed out, not all the world is Linux.
> >> 
> >> It's a good thing I've never implied such to be the case.
> >
> > You haven't *said* it but you have definitely *implied* it.
> > Installing Python in /usr/bin is not common.
> 
> It is common.  That's where it's installed by almost all Linux
> distributions.

MacOS X system python (or links to them) is in the same place.

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-- Lou Pecora