[Distutils] [issue84] setup.py install: make sys.executable overridable

[Iwan Vosloo]

New submission from Iwan Vosloo <iwan at reahl.org>:

When running setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed in order to
package an egg in, eg, a .deb, the scripts generated from entrypoints contain a
line:
#!/path/to/python

This path is taken from sys.executable.  

However, this command is often run from inside a virtualenv, in which case
sys.executable is not what you want.

It would be nice to either:
1) be able to specify a path for the python executable on the commandline,
similar to the --prefix option
or
2) strip off the contents of the $VIRTUAL_ENV variable out of sys.executable
when running with --single-version-externally-managed

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messages: 332
nosy: IwanVosloo
priority: wish
status: unread
title: setup.py install: make sys.executable overridable

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