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Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3
From: |
Benjamin Peterson |
Subject: |
Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3 |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:30:12 +0000 (UTC) |
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Patrick McCarty <pnorcks <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> Arch Linux will be migrating to Python 3 very soon,
What does this mean? "$ python" will give Python 3?
If so, that's no good. "python3" is supposed to be the name of the Python 3
executable for time in memoriam.
>
> The distribution-wide policy is as follows: Any applications that
> still need Python 2 will depend on the "python2" package, which
> provides a "python2" symlink to the currently installed Python 2
> executable (in this case, soon to be "python2.7").
>
> I know that LilyPond proper is not going to migrate yet,
> understandably, so I will soon need to use the "python2" package.
>
> There are two issues I am running into:
>
> --) Two scripts still have "/usr/bin/python" lines
> (python/auxiliar/manuals_definitions.py, and scripts/build/pytt.py).
> Those should be changed to "@PYTHON@", right?
>
> --) Some scripts use "/usr/bin/env python", which IIRC, is the best
> solution for Mac OS X users. However, I would need "/usr/bin/env
> python2" instead for these scripts to work.
As a said above (at least from the upstream Python developer's point of view),
the "python" should continue to be Python 2.
Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3,
Benjamin Peterson <=
- Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3, Benjamin Peterson, 2010/10/17
- Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3, Patrick McCarty, 2010/10/17
- Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3, Mark Polesky, 2010/10/18
- Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3, Patrick McCarty, 2010/10/18
- Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3, John Mandereau, 2010/10/18
- Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3, Patrick McCarty, 2010/10/18
- Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3, John Mandereau, 2010/10/19
- Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3, Patrick McCarty, 2010/10/19
Re: Distributions upgrading to Python 3, Valentin Villenave, 2010/10/18