Python 3.12.1, Windows 11: shebang line #!/usr/bin/env python3 doesn't work any more

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 29/12/2023 12:09 pm, Félix An via Python-list wrote:
> On 2023-12-25 12:36, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
>>
>> 3. You cannot trust Microsoft. You can trust Python Software 
>> Foundation. Python from PSF works the same in all environments - or 
>> if not it is a bug. Python from Microsoft is tweaked to satisfy their 
>> aforementioned strategy of locking in users to Windows.
>>
>
> I strongly disagree with this.

Not sure which part of the above you strongly disagree with. I might 
seem a bit OTT with "You cannot trust Microsoft" but I did put it in a 
specific context.

PSF does try to make Python work identically in all operating systems it 
supports. The OP was using py.exe which I discovered (just now - and it 
is why I'm writing this) exists on my Windows 10 machine. I have never 
installed any Python other than personally downloaded from the 
python.org website - therefore py.exe must have come from PSF!

I had assumed the OP had installed Python from the Microsoft shop and 
that's where py.exe must have come from.

I learn something every day.

> I don't get all the irrational hate for Microsoft that exists within 
> the Linux community.

Perhaps you are too young to remember when Steve Ballmer was head of 
Microsoft?

He specifically and loudly hated Linux and developed the anti-linux 
culture/strategy within Microsoft. If memory serves correctly he called 
it a virus. That was in the context of trying to get rid of Linux in 
Europe (Germany I think) where it had gained a small municipal foothold. 
Microsoft eventually succeeded in reversing that public mistake.

> In recent years, Microsoft has made great contributions to the 
> everyday life of Linux users. VS Code is based on open source and 
> available on Linux, .NET is now on Linux, Windows has WSL2 and Visual 
> Studio Linux development tools to help you develop software for Linux, 
> SQL Server (despite still being commercial software except for the 
> Express and Developer versions) is on Linux, etc.

I only use Linux on servers without GUI. I have used Windows desktop 
since it was released because most of my clients used it. I had no 
choice. I have been watching what they do for decades.

I agree they appear to have become more civilised in recent years.

M

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