[Python-ideas] Migration of /usr/bin/python to python3

[Oleg Broytman]

Hi!

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 07:42:38PM -0400, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015, at 15:43, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> > Traditionally the OS only passes the first option to the
> > interpreter so anything after that could be used to pass 3.x
> > specific options.
> 
> I think some OSes pass everything after the interpreter as one long
> string rather than ignoring extra arguments. Is there any standard for
> this?

   There *are* standards ;-) See
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/#splitting
   and the table below.

Oleg.
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