On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Nick Coghlan
If the proposal is to change the default behaviour for:
* launching the interactive interpreter * running scripts without a shebang line * running scripts with an unrecognised shebang line
then I think it's reasonable to switch all those to default to the newest CPython runtime on the machine, regardless of whether that's Python 2 or Python 3.
However, if the proposal is also to change the handling of the following shebang lines:
* #!/usr/bin/python * #!/usr/local/bin/python * #!/usr/bin/env python * #!python
then I think those should continue to be handled in a manner consistent with PEP 394 (and as PEP 397 currently specifies): as referring to Python 2 (unless PY_PYTHON explicitly says otherwise or only Python 3 is available).
Agree with both of these points. AIUI the original proposal was solely about the first half, with no recommendation of change to the second. What does py.exe do with a "#!/usr/bin/python" if the only Python installed is 3.5? Does it run it under 3.5, or error out? ChrisA