[Python-Dev] #!/usr/bin/env python --> python3 where applicable

[Tres Seaver]

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Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2009/4/18 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
>> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>>> 2009/4/18 Mitchell L Model <MLMLists at comcast.net>:
>>>> Some library files, such as pdb.py, begin with
>>>>        #!/usr/bin/env python
>>>> In various discussions regarding some issues I submitted I was told that the
>>>> decision had been made to call Python 3.x release executables python3. (One
>>>> of the conflicts I ran into when I made 'python' a link to python3.1 was
>>>> that some tools used in making the HTML documentation haven't been upgraded
>>>> to run with 3.)
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't all library files that begin with the above line be changed so
>>>> that they read 'python3' instead of python? Perhaps I should have just filed
>>>> this as an issue, but I'm not confident of the state of the plan to move to
>>>> python3 as the official executable name.
>>> That sounds correct. Please file a bug report.
>> As Kevin pointed out, while this is a problem, changing the affected
>> scripts to say "python3" instead isn't the right answer.
>>
>> All that happened with the Python 3 installers is that they do
>> 'altinstall' rather than 'fullinstall' by default, thus leaving the
>> 'python' alias alone. There is no "python3" alias unless a user creates
>> it for themselves (or a distro packager does it for them).
> 
> I've actually implemented a python3 alias for 3.1.
> 
>> I see a few options:
>> 1. Abandon the "python" name for the 3.x series and commit to calling it
>> "python3" now and forever (i.e. actually make the decision that Mitchell
>> refers to).
> 
> I believe this was decided on sometime (the sprints?).

It was at the Language Summit.


Tres.
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