Scott, I booted up a CentOS 6.4 VM, and the symlink is there (runs python2.6). I'd be interested to know if there are any other systems where it's unavailable though.
- Kerrick On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com>wrote: > > > Kerrick Staley <kerr...@kerrickstaley.com> 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 > ><deb...@kitterman.com>wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Kerrick Staley <kerr...@kerrickstaley.com> 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 debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/cd5aef27-a8e2-4675-b22a-51a72a637...@email.android.com > >
