On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:35:02 -0700, Westley =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDnez?= <aniko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 05:36 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > > On 3/20/2011 3:22 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote: > > On 3/19/2011 7:38 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: > > [snip] > > > > As both a writer and reader, I would like to just add, for instance, > > > > #! python3 > > > > (or 3.3 or whatever) and have the launcher do the 'right thing'. > > It seems to me that that really should be enough info for *nix, > > but given that it is not, a program to add the required extra noise for > > a particular distribution to the first line of every module in a package > > should not be too difficult. > > > > The above would be easy for anyone to write and understand. > > > That would break the whole point of platform-independence. UNIX won't > understand that, and I don't think we're gonna be able to convince all > the kernel developers to implement this simplified shebang.
+1. If one of the points is to be compatible with PEP 394, then the above seems like a bad idea. However, I don't use windows, so I don't know if my vote should count ;) -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com