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Re: Python Alternatives?



Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> 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 :-)
>
> From what I recall the upstream Python community does not suggest calling
> Python 3 'python' either.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/ recommends that the python
name be used for python2, but notes that some distributions have
switched it to point to python3.  So the suggestion is that python2-only
scripts should have an explicit python2 shebang, and only scripts that
support both should have the python shebang.

--
regards,
kushal


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