#!/usr/bin/python32 For bilingual scripts. On 17 Apr 2015 2:30 pm, "Geoffrey Thomas" <geo...@ldpreload.com> wrote:
> I've written up the proposal I made a few days ago for a /usr/bin/python > launcher that keeps the API of being Python 2, but lets scripts opt in to > running on Python 3: > > https://ldpreload.com/blog/usr-bin-python-23 > > I share the desire for /usr/bin/python to maintain its API of being Python > 2, but I also want to be able to write polyglot Python 2/3 scripts that run > everyhwere -- including on Debian machines with just Python 3. So this is a > way of "doing something else with /usr/bin/python" that's > backwards-compatible for us and all the other distros. It even happens to > be be kind of backwards-compatible for Arch, and Barry's point about > aligning the desires of the distros is a very good one. > > Let me know if you think this is a good or bad idea: I'll submit this as a > PEP as soon as we have rough consensus that this is a good idea. (We can > bikeshed the details once the idea itself is a draft PEP.) > > -- > Geoffrey Thomas > https://ldpreload.com > geo...@ldpreload.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.10.1504171655000.18...@cactuar.ldpreload.com > >
