Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-15 Thread Michael Milliman
It sounds like the status of the /usr/bin/python link is really a mess with some people/distros doing one thing and others doing something else. I imagine it will settle down eventually to a commonly accepted standard. For now, though, it looks like using either a python2 or python3 shebang,

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-15 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:39:27AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >> That would violate Debian Python policy. You are free to do it on your >> own system, but it will likely break many Python packages on Debian, and >> you get to keep all the pieces :-) > >

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:39:27AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > That would violate Debian Python policy. You are free to do it on your > own system, but it will likely break many Python packages on Debian, and > you get to keep all the pieces :-) From what I recall the upstream Python community

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-13 Thread Ben Finney
Joe Pfeiffer writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > The policy for Python in Debian requires that “/usr/bin/python’ is > > the default Python 2 interpreter, and ‘/usr/bin/python3’ is the > > default Python 3 interpreter. > > > > There is no “default Python

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-13 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ben Finney writes: > Michael Milliman writes: > >> I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain >> 8.5 (jessie) system. The default Python interpreter on the system is >> Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python). > >

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-13 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Milliman writes: > I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain > 8.5 (jessie) system. The default Python interpreter on the system is > Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python). The policy for Python in Debian requires that

Re: Python Alternatives?

2016-12-13 Thread deloptes
Michael Milliman wrote: > I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain > 8.5 (jessie) system. The default Python interpreter on the system is > Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python). I would prefer this default > to be Python 3.4. I can, of course manually change

Python Alternatives?

2016-12-13 Thread Michael Milliman
I currently have both Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 installed on my debain 8.5 (jessie) system. The default Python interpreter on the system is Python 2.7 (as linked by /usr/bin/python). I would prefer this default to be Python 3.4. I can, of course manually change the link in /usr/bin to point