On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:44:29 +0200 Robin Jarry <robin.ja...@6wind.com> wrote:
> 2020-07-13, Bruce Richardson: > > In the absense of a "proper" solution, is the simplest option to > > change the shebangs to all be python3, but leave the python2 > > compatibility in place, and add the warnings for anyone running it > > explicitly using python2? > > I have found a hacky[1] but somewhat not too ugly way to dynamically use > any available python interpreter. > > Basically, the scripts shebangs become: > > #!/bin/sh > # shell script hack to dynamically use any available python interpreter > ''':' > if command -pv python3 >/dev/null 2>&1; then > exec python3 "$0" "$@" > else > exec python2 "$0" "$@" > fi > ''' > # real python code starts here > > This hack obviously would remain only for the time where we still have > python 2 support and can be removed after 20.08 is released. > > What do you think? > > [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/66242 > No.
