Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'python3': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'wrong,': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; '\xe9crit': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'tutorials': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header :In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'linux': 0.33; 'skip:# 10': 0.33; 'but': 0.35; 'next': 0.36; 'expected': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'tell': 0.60; 'times': 0.62; 'our': 0.64; 'within': 0.65 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ned Batchelder Subject: Re: running python 2 vs 3 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:26:39 -0400 References: <87ob10nbeh.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 18.189.9.83 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1395347215 news.xs4all.nl 2921 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41455 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:68611 On 3/20/14 3:07 PM, Eric Jacoboni wrote: > Le 20/03/2014 16:21, Marko Rauhamaa a écrit : > > >> All tutorials will tell you to start it with >> >> #!/usr/bin/env python >> >> which will start python2 on all (?) existing linux distros, but is >> expected to start python3 within the next decade. > > With Arch-Linux, python is python3... > Yes, and they have been told many times that this was foolish and wrong, but it persists, much to our pain. -- Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com