"py" command for Linux and Mac?
Mats Wichmann
mats at wichmann.us
Thu May 12 13:52:33 EDT 2022
On 5/12/22 10:25, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I heard there's a Windows-like "py" command for Linux (and Mac?).
>
> I'm finally getting to porting a particular project's Python 2.7 code to
> 3.x, and one of the first steps will probably be changing a lot of "python2
> script.py" to use #!/usr/bin/env python2 and chmod +x. Then we can update
> the scripts one at a time to use #!/usr/bin/env python3.
>
> However, would this be Linux-and-Mac-only? I'm not at all sure this code
> will ever move to Windows, but in case it does, would a "py" command work
> on all 3 if I use #!/usr/bin/env py?
The py command (python lanucher) respects shebang lines.
https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#python-launcher-for-windows
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