On 14 April 2015 at 08:57, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote:

> I have scripts I use locally that are untouched in almost a decade that use
> /usr/bin/python.


I'm thinking about scripts that are written and distributed to people
running on different, unknown, Linux distros. Obviously if you're only
targeting your own machines, there's no problem. But if you want to write a
script that will work for arbitrary Linux users, what should you do? I
imagine it's not yet a safe assumption that python3 is installed
everywhere, but on the other hand, Ubuntu and Fedora are both looking at
dropping Python 2, so without some kind of compatibility shim it won't be
safe to assume there's a python command.

Thomas

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