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

[Grant Edwards]

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.

> It is very specific to your system.

Are you claiming that Linux is not a "common" Unix-like OS?

-- 
Grant