[Python-Dev] Another update for PEP 394 -- The "python" Command on Unix-Like Systems

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8:59 AM INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > With *Homebrew*, `python` points to Homebrew’s Python 2.7.x (if
> > installed) otherwise the macOS system Python. That's exactly according
> > to the PEP. They tried to switch python to python3 before, and got
> > rather nasty backlash citing PEP 394. I assume they will follow the PEP
> > quite strictly from now on.
> >
>
> I want to add note here.
> When homebrew switched to python -> python3, node-gyp is broken.
> It is very widely used tool for web developers.
>
> Since Google was very lazy about adding Python 3 to gyp, node-gyp
> can't support Python 3 for a long time.
>
> But this situation is changing.  Google added Python 3 support to gyp.
> node-gyp project is working on Python 3 support for now.
>
> I think keeping PEP 394 as-is until node-gyp officially support Python 3
> would helps many web developers.
>

In practice, does what /usr/bin/python is even matter to node-gyp?  I'd
*hope* that it would refer to /usr/bin/python2.7... (does anyone use
something as modern as node.js on a system with python 2 but without
/usr/bin/python2.7? [i probably don't want to know the answer to that...])

node-gyp's got a great issue number for this:
https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/1337

-gps
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