[Python-ideas] Migration of /usr/bin/python to python3

[random832 at fastmail.us]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015, at 17:33, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 12 March 2015 at 20:49,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> > Though, speaking of the posix shell script exec issue, and to wrench
> > things back on topic... what about allowing python scripts to start with
> > the line "exec python [options...] $0", a line which will be ignored by
> > the python interpreter?
> 
> Can't you use the -x option (skip first line of source) for that?
> Paul

I'd guess the "DOS specific hack" it is intended for is, in fact,
precisely "run the python interpreter using the native scripting
language in the first line". So... I guess you could.

Might be worth cleaning up the line number issue and replacing the env
hack with it going forward, given, you know, POSIX compliance.