[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Tools/scripts pydoc,NONE,1.1

Greg Ward gward@cnri.reston.va.us
Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:10:53 -0500


On 02 March 2001, Guido van Rossum said:
> This could become a standard distutils feature!

It is -- if a script is listed in 'scripts' in setup.py, and it's a Python
script, its #! line is automatically munged to point to the python that's
running the setup script.

Hmmm, this could be a problem if that python hasn't been installed itself
yet.  IIRC, it just trusts sys.executable.

        Greg