Martijn Faassen: The Call of Python 2.8

[Rustom Mody]

On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 1:02:00 PM UTC+5:30, Andrew Berg wrote:
> On 2014.04.15 20:21, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:32:57 -0500, Andrew Berg wrote:
> 
> > 
> 
> >> On 2014.04.15 17:18, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> 
> >>> Yeah, that's the wrong way to do it, and they shouldn't have done that.
> 
> >>>   "python" needs to mean Python 2.x for a long time.
> 
> >> Or maybe explicit is better than implicit:
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> # python
> 
> >> zsh: command not found: python
> 
> >> # which python2.7
> 
> >> /usr/local/bin/python2.7
> >> # which python3.4
> >> /usr/local/bin/python3.4

> > If you really meant that, you would have typed "/usr/bin/which2.16 
> > python" (or whatever the location and version of which on your system).
> 
> Are you sure about that?
> # which which
> which: shell built-in command
> Unless I'm forgetting some more explicit way of calling a command built into the shell.

Not out here:

$ which which
/usr/bin/which
$ ls -l /usr/bin/which 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 28  2013 /usr/bin/which -> /bin/which

Though there is no evidence of which-versionitis which is what Steven is implying??