On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:57:36 -0500 Jason Swails <jason.swa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I literally just ran into this problem now. Part of a software suite I've > written uses Python to fetch updates during the installation process. Due > to the target audience, it needs to access the system Python (only), and > support systems as old as RHEL 5 (Python 2.4 and later, including Python > 3.x in the same code base, using nothing but the stdlib). The shebang line > was "#!/usr/bin/env python" > > It's been working for years, but was only now reported broken by a user > that upgraded their Ubuntu distribution and suddenly had no "python" > executable anywhere. But they had python3. > > I suspect suddenly not having any "python" executable in a Linux system > will screw up a lot more people than just me. The workaround was ugly.
I'm not sure what you mean. Isn't the workaround to install Python 2 in this case? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
