[Distutils] shebang line modified by setuptools

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 03:26 PM 4/12/2008 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote:

>On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 17:53 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> > At 12:30 PM 4/12/2008 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote:
> > >PATH is *supposed* to affect applications.
> >
> > It affects which application you should run, not which interpreter
> > you run the application with.
>
>I think that's splitting hairs and pretty much just made up to defend
>your position.

Anybody who thinks they can globally change which Python interpreter 
they're running their scripts with is cruising for a serious 
bruising.  Better they discover their error sooner than later.

Have you ever wondered why Red Hat has that stupid 'python2' 
executable?  It's because they used #! lines pointing to 'python' 
rather than referencing a specific *version* of Python... and had to 
pay for it for years thereafter.

(That's also, by the way, why easy_install also always installs a 
versioned executable name for itself.)