[Python-porting] Shebang lines for Python 3

[David Gowers (kampu)]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 21:07, Aaron Meurer <asmeurer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> We've been having a bit of a discussion about this on the SymPy
>> (sympy.org) issue tracker.  Is it proper to use "python3" in the
>> shebang line of a script that should be run in Python 3?  Something
>> like
>>
>> #! /usr/bin/env python3
>>
>
> It is proper, sure.
>
> This shortcut works on my machine, but I don't know if it's universal
>> to all Python 3 installs.
>
>
> I know archlinux uses just "python" for Python 3 and "python2" for Python
> 2.
>
Not that that stops you from using 'python3' or even 'python3.2' (though I
wouldn't recommend the latter.). So no changes should be necessary.
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