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

[James Y Knight]

On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> The launcher could also (as per Mark's suggestion) interpret a shebang
> line in the script, so that scripts could specify their required
> version without needing a different command,or multiple
> version-specific extensions.

Note that, on Unix, "python file.py" doesn't choose the correct version of python to run by looking at a shebang, it just runs the version of python installed as "python". Only "./file.py" looks at the shebang (assuming that file is marked executable). 

Is the proposal to make python.exe do that on windows? That is a rather significant difference from the unix behavior.