#!/usr/bin/python32
For bilingual scripts.
I've written up the proposal I made a few days ago for a /usr/bin/python launcher that keeps the API of being Python 2, but lets scripts opt in to running on Python 3:
https://ldpreload.com/blog/usr-bin-python-23
I share the desire for /usr/bin/python to maintain its API of being Python 2, but I also want to be able to write polyglot Python 2/3 scripts that run everyhwere -- including on Debian machines with just Python 3. So this is a way of "doing something else with /usr/bin/python" that's backwards-compatible for us and all the other distros. It even happens to be be kind of backwards-compatible for Arch, and Barry's point about aligning the desires of the distros is a very good one.
Let me know if you think this is a good or bad idea: I'll submit this as a PEP as soon as we have rough consensus that this is a good idea. (We can bikeshed the details once the idea itself is a draft PEP.)
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Geoffrey Thomas
https://ldpreload.com
geofft@ldpreload.com
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