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On Jul 25, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Over on python-dev we're talking about Linux Distributions switching from > python2 to python3, what steps they need to take and in what order. One of > the things that's come up [1]_ is that a very early step in the process is > making > sure that shebang lines use /usr/bin/python2 or /usr/bin/python3 as noted in > PEP394 [2]_. Faced with the prospect of patching a whole bunch of scripts > in the distribution, I'm wondering what distutils, distlib, setuptools, etc > do with shebang lines. > * Do they rewrite shebang lines? distutils, distlib and setuptools all do. > * If so, do they use #!/usr/bin/python2 or do they use #!/usr/bin/python ? I believe they are actually all using sys.executable > * If the latter, is there hope that we could change that to match with > PEP-394's > recommendations? (setuptools seems to be moving relatively quickly these > days so that seems reasonably easy.... distutils is tied to the release > schedule of core python-2.7.x although if the change is accepted into the > CPython tree we might consider backporting it to the current distribution > package early. What's the value of sys.executable in the brave new world of distributions that follow PEP 394? - -- Philip Jenvey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJR8ai9AAoJEJ82HVHb51bRPsUH/0eH03riVb1EtruYxqQ0sFxZ F0XhVPSdSfMgU63e1aXTeLs1KT+NwHjH5w25Zt024/Xizv/HhDFr8ElfsPjCZwW3 fUBUuSOcq9zuLsDuAvsRXPGuv5jRSZf8DiRExDFQjV1GZSuZ46ExOf3D/TJmbcOf EibAzPzDCOZdgGTw4NcS2yzE9N/woyIjSyvJPXG8IyyFEFw9V4ZfpZL5uiKoKt0p acbC8tzh0w79atsHN1tCalYhcXzIgAsAWBpXj18V4RKxjtZW9i1k5KQKmkKn2FLF Vr5ELNjaoLFJ77RuBZWGN6GOv5rPh1C9PFzFRURrrSk4CWEma636GuktbpA3Kik= =zzg5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
