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

[Ben Finney]

"Wojciech Walczak" <wojtek.gminick.walczak at gmail.com> writes:

> 2008/5/6, Banibrata Dutta <banibrata.dutta at gmail.com>:
> >  > Use /usr/bin/env.  If env is not in /usr/bin, put a link to it there.
> >
> >  So why not put symlink to Python over there on all machines, if
> >  we can put one (or env itself) there ?
> 
> To avoid linking all the rest of interpreters like perl, ruby, lua
> and dozens of others.

The argument was being made from "thousands of scripts". Isn't "dozens
of symlinks" better?

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