On Thu, 03 Oct 2019 23:12:45 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Seems fine. Most of the code is elsewhere, and presumably has been > written to support both Py2 and Py3; the file you're linking to is > *just* a wrapper that finds an interpreter to use. > > Though this should be unnecessary. A simple shebang of "/usr/bin/env > python3" will suffice for many many situations (and then if someone > specifically wants to run it in a legacy interpreter, an explicit > "python2 scriptname.py" or "python scriptname.py" will work). I'm very confusing on the following part in this script: ---- ''':' # begin python string; this line is interpreted by the shell as `:` which python >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec python "$0" "$@" which python3 >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec python3 "$0" "$@" which python2 >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec python2 "$0" "$@" >&2 echo "error: cannot find python" exit 1 ''' ---- Any hints for the meaning of several ' used above? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
