On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 4:40 PM John Thorvald Wodder II wrote:

First of all, your last two messages only went to me, not to the list. The mailing list doesn't set Reply-To on messages or the like, so you have to manually set "To: distutils-sig@python.org" when replying.

Aargh, right. I use gmail for my home mail, and since I'm stuck working at home, that is what I used here. Gmail likes to hide, well, pretty much everything. I will repost those responses.

As to your e-mail, though, are any of those files even meant to be executed? They're not in bin/; they just appear to be regular source files that some developer slapped a shebang on.

That in a sense is the issue. I don't know, you don't know, maybe the developer knows (if he/she still remembers). I really don't want to do the work to dig through the code for every package I install to determine if a shebang is used or not. Yet if I don't figure this out some end user will run a script (one of a hundred in some package I installed for their use) which will blow up because of this issue. The best I can do now is run pdvctrl reshebang $TARGET_DIR or pdvctrl reshebang $ROOT_DIR... and fix them up after the fact. (pdvctrl from python_devirtualizer here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/python-devirtualizer/). Even then it usually has to guess that "python" means "python3" and not "python2", and sometimes it guesses wrong. Today's version of that recurring issue: https://github.com/lastz/lastz/issues/30 Regards, David Mathog