On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Max Countryman <m...@me.com> wrote: > > But is that what Python development has decided?
I'm not sure what they have recommended. Ultimately it's up to the distros to decide such things; I have seen that written more then once by BFDL and friends. I think what Arch is doing is perfectly reasonable; if you, as a developer, or even a user, run the `python` binary, you should not expect any assurances, as you are making assumptions about the target environment. If your app requires a particular major or minor version to operate correctly, then make this clear in the shebang, throw an exception, etc... imo, catering to sluggish apps that are not py3k compatible and not active enough to even acknowledge the onset of py3k, is a waste of time. C Anthony
