Here's my perspective on this :

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:10:57AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:

| > #!/usr/bin/env python2.3 helps programs running everywhere, i.e. they
| > will work with people that installed python in /usr/local/bin for
| > instance.

Use this if you are distributing your script/program to the world at
large.

| Hmm, after reading everyone's arguments, it seems wiser to use
| #!/usr/bin/python2.3 in order to avoid mixing with local python
| installs.

Use this in a debian package.

The difference:  on $RANDOM_UNIX_SYSTEM you don't know that pythonX.Y
is in /usr/bin, but on a debian system you do and on a debian system
you'd rather not deal with other installations in $ENV.

-D

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