[Python-Dev] Draft PEP and reference implementation of a Python launcher for Windows

[Westley Martínez]

On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 05:36 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/20/2011 3:22 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On 3/19/2011 7:38 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> As both a writer and reader, I would like to just add, for instance,
> 
> #! python3
> 
> (or 3.3 or whatever) and have the launcher do the 'right thing'.
> It seems to me that that really should be enough info for *nix,
> but given that it is not, a program to add the required extra noise  for 
> a particular distribution to the first line of every module in a package 
> should not be too difficult.
> 
> The above would be easy for anyone to write and understand.
> 
That would break the whole point of platform-independence.  UNIX won't
understand that, and I don't think we're gonna be able to convince all
the kernel developers to implement this simplified shebang.