/usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory

[Cliff Wells]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:16:54 -0800
Chris Barker <chrishbarker at attbi.com> wrote:

> I suppose, if we all, as a community, start using:
> 
> #!/use/bin/env python2.1
> 
> Then the problem will be solved, at least on *nix...
> 
> Then what do you do with a script that will run on either 1.5 or 2.0 or
> 2.1 ????? and you don't know which of these might be installed?
> 

It seems reasonable that if your script requires a particular version of Python to append the version to the executable name (i.e. python2.1), and if your script doesn't care, then just use "python" which could be a symbolic link to the default python interpreter (much as redhat has it now).  It might be helpful if the python interpreter took a flag such as --required-version or --minimum-version so that a warning could be printed if the script requires a version different than what is available on the system.

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Cliff Wells
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