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

[Ben Finney]

"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy at druid.net> writes:

> On Fri, 02 May 2008 23:30:01 +1000
> Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > The OP was asking why people prefer on over the other. My answer
> > is that I prefer specifying "give me the default OS Python"
> > because anything not installed by the OS is [too] non-standardised
> > for me to worry about.
> 
> 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.

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Ben Finney