[Python-Dev] [PEPs] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
> Without putting too much thought into it, I think a simple scheme could work
> where the path must either be "/usr/bin/python[23]?" or a fully-qualified
> path to a Python executable.  IIUC, this should allow most scripts to have a
> shebang line that "does the right thing" on *nix and Windows systems while
> still offering maximum flexibility on Windows.

Such a scheme should be able to handle "/usr/bin/env python2" and
variants as well.

Cheers,
Nick.

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