Re: How to select an interpretor version?
On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 02:41:04PM +0300, Victor Porton wrote:
> For example, if I understand correctly /usr/bin/python on some systems may
> mean Python 2.x and on some systems Python 3.x.
>
> Is there any "standard" to avoid such multiple meanings of an executable
> located in the same path of the filesystem? In Debian, are there always more
> specific paths like /usr/bin/python2.7 or /usr/bin/python3.1?
/usr/bin/python is right now guaranteed to be the latest Python 2 and
/usr/bin/python3 is pointing to the latest Python 3. As I understand it,
there are no plans to repoint /usr/bin/python to Python 3, because that would
break application's expectations. I am aware that other distributions do this,
though, so you might need to autodetect what you are dealing with in this
case (e.g. through `python --version').
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
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