At 03:26 PM 4/12/2008 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote: >On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 17:53 -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > At 12:30 PM 4/12/2008 -0700, Cliff Wells wrote: > > >PATH is *supposed* to affect applications. > > > > It affects which application you should run, not which interpreter > > you run the application with. > >I think that's splitting hairs and pretty much just made up to defend >your position.
Anybody who thinks they can globally change which Python interpreter they're running their scripts with is cruising for a serious bruising. Better they discover their error sooner than later. Have you ever wondered why Red Hat has that stupid 'python2' executable? It's because they used #! lines pointing to 'python' rather than referencing a specific *version* of Python... and had to pay for it for years thereafter. (That's also, by the way, why easy_install also always installs a versioned executable name for itself.) _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
