Hallöchen!
D'Arcy J.M. Cain writes:
> On Fri, 02 May 2008 23:30:01 +1000
> Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The OP was asking why people prefer on over the other. My answer
>> is that I prefer specifying "give me the default OS Python"
>> because anything not installed by the OS is to non-standardised
>> for me to worry about.
>
> [...]
>
> Certainly #! /usr/bin/python is fine if you never expect your
> software to run outside of your own little corner of the world but
> you asked why people prefer the env version and the answer is that
> we want to write software that runs everywhere that Python runs.
Granted, but you must draw the line somewhere anyway. I cannot
pollute my program with hundreds of if clauses just to make it work
on every quirky system. It's the *systems* where the streamlining
must happen, not the programs.
Tschö,
Torsten.
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