Kerrick Staley <[email protected]> wrote: >What's not included in "some newer releases" here? /usr/bin/python2 has >been present on all systems I've used except Debian. > >- Kerrick
It looks to me like the latest Centos ships with python2.6 and /usr/bin/python2 only shipped with 2.7. Scott K > >On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Scott Kitterman ><[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> Kerrick Staley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >Thanks! >> > >> >The upstream recommendation (from PEP 394 [1]) is that, going >forward, >> >portable scripts *can't* assume python is python2, and *should* use >> >python2. >> > >> >- Kerrick >> > >> >[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ >> >> I'm very familiar with it. >> >> Now we get to Arch is insane. >> >> They've put developers in a difficult spot. They have to choose >between >> /usr/bin/python2 and works on Arch and some newer releases and >> /usr/bin/python and works everywhere except Arch. >> >> The only suggestion I can make is that it's generally not that hard >for >> new code to make it work for both python2.7 and python3.3. Then >there's no >> need to care. >> >> Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
