[Python-Dev] Status of Python in the Red Hat 7.1 beta

[Guido van Rossum]

> That's how woody works now, and the binaries are called python and python2.

The binaries should be called python1.5 and python2.0, and python
should be a symlink to whatever is the default one.  This is how the
standard "make install" works, and it makes it possible for scripts to
require a specific version by specifying e.g.

    #! /usr/bin/env python1.5

at the top.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)