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Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

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Ole Streicher wrote:

> It is very usual to use "#!/usr/bin/env python" as shebang, exactly for
> the case that python is not installed in /usr/bin.

Sure, but then all bets are off.  The script so shebanged can't assume
anything about $PATH so it gets whatever it gets.  Using /usr/bin/env in
system provided scripts has been known to break stuff, so it's a very
bad idea.

Plus, if that's what you use for your own scripts, then in the future
you'll be in luck because all you'd have to do is change your $PATH
to point to wherever your custom built and installed Python 2 lives
first, and then you'll get exactly the version you want.

> That is -- at least in my environmet -- "ipython", or (for Python 3)
> "ipython3".
>
> IMO it would be better to communicate that the best way for an
> interactive session is "ipython3" (or "python3", if you insist). I would
> wonder when todays tutorials (that cover Python 3) recommend to use
> plain "python".

But ipython doesn't come with upstream Python so that would require that
Something Extra be installed.  That's generally why Getting Started
guides and tutorials usually recommend the built-in interactive prompt.

>> * Port as much as possible to Python 3 (eventually, everything
>> maintained in Debian) and /usr/bin/python3 in their shebang.
> I disagree here, and I don't see an advantage over letting
> /usr/bin/python just die with Python 2.

/usr/bin/python didn't die with Python 2 (who else remembers 1.5.2 as an
effectively LTS release? :) and I don't believe it should with Python 3.
Maybe go on vacation, but eventually return home.

> I would also like to point PEP 394, which has a number of arguments why
> /usr/bin/python should remain as Python 2.
>
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/

Right, but the ecosystem has evolved since then, so the discussions
going on in linux-sig and the *draft* PR at
https://github.com/python/peps/pull/315 are about updating the
recommendations now that we're somewhere less than three years away from
Python 2 EOL.

Fedora is moving forward with or without us.  I bet that other Linux
distros will too.  We can certainly do our own thing, but I think
that'll make Debian the odd distro out eventually.

Cheers,
-Barry

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MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2017-08-04 00:00 +0200
  Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage barry@debian.org - 2017-08-04 03:10 +0200
    Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-08-04 05:30 +0200
      Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> - 2017-08-04 08:10 +0200
      Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage barry@debian.org - 2017-08-04 16:20 +0200
        Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2017-08-04 17:10 +0200
          Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2017-08-04 17:50 +0200
        Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-08-04 23:10 +0200
          Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2017-08-05 03:40 +0200
            Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-08-05 04:10 +0200
          Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ldpreload.com> - 2017-08-08 00:50 +0200
        Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> - 2017-08-08 00:00 +0200
          Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 00:50 +0200
            Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 01:40 +0200
              Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> - 2017-08-08 01:50 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 03:40 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 04:00 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 04:20 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> - 2017-08-08 05:10 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 05:30 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> - 2017-08-08 05:40 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 06:00 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 07:00 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ldpreload.com> - 2017-08-08 04:10 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 04:30 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Diane Trout <diane@ghic.org> - 2017-08-08 05:20 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 05:40 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 07:30 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 08:20 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ldpreload.com> - 2017-08-10 17:40 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2017-08-08 21:20 +0200
                Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-08-08 21:30 +0200
    Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2017-08-04 13:00 +0200
      Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2017-08-04 14:40 +0200
  Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-07 00:00 +0200
  Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-08-07 01:00 +0200
  Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2017-08-07 01:10 +0200

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