[Python-Dev] [PEPs] Rebooting PEP 394 (aka Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream)

[Éric Araujo]

Hi Devid,

> I think you missed the point of the PEP.  The point is to create a new,
> python-dev-blessed standard that the distros will follow.  The primary
> goal is so that a script can specify python2 or python3 in the #!
> line and expect that to work on all compliant linux systems, which we
> hope will be all of them.  Everything else is just details.

I’m sorry if my opinion on that main point was lost among remarks on
details.  To rephrase one part of my reply: Right now, the de facto
standard is that shebangs can use python to mean python2 and python3 to
mean python3.  Adding python2 to that and supporting making python
ambiguous seems harmful to me.

Regards