On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On May 25, 2013, at 03:12 AM, Chris McDonough wrote: > >>You probably already know this, but I'll mention it anyway. This >>probably matters a lot for nose and pyflakes, but I'd say that for tox >>it should not, it basically just scripts execution of shell commands. >>I'd think maybe in cases like tox (and others that are compatible with >>both Python 2 and 3) the hashbang should just be set to >>"#!/usr/bin/python" unconditionally. > > Unfortunately, not entirely so: > > https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/96/cant-have-a-python-3-setuppy > >>Maybe we could also think about modifying pyflakes so that it can >>validate both 2 and 3 code (choosing one or the other based on a header >>line in the validated files and defaulting to the version of Python >>being run). This is kind of the right thing anyway. > > Agreed. Auto-detection may need to be accompanied by a command line option to > override in some cases. But I agree, that in general, it would be very nice > if the script itself were actually bilingual. (But then, see my previous > comment about cross-interpreter dependencies.) > >>Nose is a bit of a special case. I personally never run nosetests >>directly, I always use setup.py nosetests, which makes it not matter. > > Which is morally equivalent to `$python -m nose`. > >>In general, I'd like to think that scripts that get installed to global >>bindirs will execute utilities that are useful independent of the >>version of Python being used to execute them. > > Agreed. I'm trying to tease out some conventions we can recommend for when > this can't be the case for whatever reason. > > -Barry
Wheel has no mechanism for renaming scripts (or any file) based on the Python version used to install. Instead you would have to build python-version-specific packages for each desired script name. _______________________________________________ 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