[pypy-dev] Use pypy if available otherwise fallback to CPython

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:44 AM, kgardenia42 <kgardenia42 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some python code (lets call it main.py) which I'd like to run
> with pypy if available/installed but otherwise fallback to CPython.
>
> Clearly if I call my main.py explicitly with either "pypy" or "python"
> as follows then I will get the behavior I want:
>
>   python main.py
>   pypy main.py
>
> However, my goal is that main.py is executable and I can just do:
>
>   ./main.py
>
> and it will use pypy if installed, otherwise fallback to normal python.
>
> In the archives of this list I found the following idiom:
>
> try:
>    import __pypy__
> except ImportError:
>    __pypy__ = None
>
> However, I don't think this helps me here.  It seems like (and correct
> me if I'm wrong) the code just detects python vs pypy when it has
> already been run with one or the other.  It doesn't accomplish my
> stated goal and it seems like that idiom would only make sense if I
> wanted custom code to run depending on whether I run from python or
> pypy.  Did I miss something?
>
> So otherwise, what can I put in the shebang line of my main.py to
> accomplish my goal?  I assume if I make it /usr/bin/python then I will
> just always use CPython (irregardless of whether I do the import
> __pypy__ trick).  So all I can think of is the rather brute-force
> approach of creating my own wrapper shell script (e.g.
> /usr/bin/python-selector) which delegates to pypy if available but
> otherwise uses /usr/bin/python.  I then put #!/usr/bin/python-selector
> as the shebang line of my main.py.  Does that make sense?
>
> I'm pretty sure I must be missing a trick here and there is a better way.
>
> Any guidance welcome.
>
> Thanks.
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You can either do that, or do something like:

if_pypy_installed (however you check it depends on your os/distro):
  os.system(pypy, sys.argv) with correct parsing of argv and putting
it there, not sure how to do it ;-)