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

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Fri, 02 May 2008 15:50:22 +1000
Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > You have lived a sheltered life.  Not every packaging system puts the
> > executible in /usr/bin.  Many systems use /usr/local/bin.
> 
> They use that for the operating-system-installed default Python
> interpreter? Colour me incredulous.

OK, let me get out my crayons.  However, note that I did not say
"operating-system-installed."  I said a packaging system puts it
there.  In fact, the NetBSD packaging system works on many systems
including Linux and thus is not an operating system packager.

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