On 29 March 2017 at 14:26, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > --- > Fedora ships numerous executables written in Python. Many of them contain > the shebang line: #!/usr/bin/env python > > However, this makes it difficult to install alternative versions of Python > on the system. If a user wishes e.g. to install python 3 on the system, and > have a /usr/local/python in her PATH, this will break these executables. > > These system executables are expecting to use the system python, and thus > should use: #!/usr/bin/python." > > Last line of this fragment says clearly that #!/usr/bin/python should be > used.
I don't seem to get the above argument. Why do they not consider a design where the system executables are expecting to use non-system python when available? Suppose, as a developer, I need to test my software and scripts against multiple versions of Python. What is the recommended way of doing this? Symlinks? Alternatives? By the way, I find the original post quite difficult to read. May I suggest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma#Uses_in_English Thanks, Orcan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
