[Python-Dev] Use ptyhon -s as default shbang for system python executables/daemons

[Donald Stufft]

> On Mar 18, 2015, at 12:48 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 18, 2015, at 05:31 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> 
>> Does it work to pass command line options to Python in the shebang?
> 
> Yes, but only one "word", thus -Es or -I.
> 
> We've often mused about whether it makes sense to have two Pythons on the
> system.  One for system scripts and another for users.  System Python
> ('/usr/bin/spython' perhaps) would be locked down and only extensible by
> system packages.  On Debuntu that might mean no /usr/local on sys.path.  It
> would also have a much more limited set of installed packages, i.e. only those
> needed to support system functionality.
> 
> /usr/bin/python2 and /usr/bin/python3 then would be user tools, with all the
> goodness they currently have.
> 
> It's never gotten much farther than musings, but protecting the system against
> the weird things people install would be a good thing.  OTOH, this feels a lot
> like virtual environments so maybe there's something useful to be mined there.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Barry
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I’ve long wished that the OS had it’s own virtual environment. A lot of problems
seems to come from trying to cram the things the OS wants with the things that
the user wants into the same namespace.

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