[Python-porting] Shebang lines for Python 3

[Vladimir Perić]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:
> On 9/4/2011 9:07 PM, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>>
>> This shortcut works on my machine, but I don't know if it's universal
>> to all Python 3 installs.  This certainly would make it easier to me
>> developing with those scripts, because I can just call ./script.py,
>> but I'm wondering if it's proper to use that in the final (Python 3
>> version of the) release of the package.
>
> I remember reading somewhere that it's currently the
> recommendation of Python upstream to leave "python"
> at Python 2.x - possibly even indefinitely - and use
> "python3" for Python 3. Arch went against the grain
> there, it seems.

If that's the case, would it make sense to have 2to3 automatically
convert these shebang lines? As a separate (perhaps not enabled by
default) fixer maybe?

>
> I don't think "python3.2" makes sense unless you have
> some reason to think it won't work with 3.3.
>
>
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> Eike Hein
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