On 2015-04-14 at 09:22:22 -0400, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > 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.
If I was writing something new today I would use python3, put python3 in the shebang and just say that it needs python3 as a dependency, and let the users install it from the package manager if they need it. The only machines I can think of where python3 may not be available even as a package are old redhat ones where the version of python2 is so ancient that it doesn't have the compatibility features required to run py2/py3 code anyway. -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150414140911.gc9...@virginsteele.home.trueelena.org
