Python Script Hashplings

Fri Jul 26 06:41:29 EDT 2013

On 07/25/2013 10:01 AM, Matthew Lefavor wrote:
> The answer is "probably not." If you just want to use the latest 
> version of Python 3 you have installed on your system, use: 
> "#!/usr/bin/python3". When you use the specific minor version numbers, 
> they point to that specific minor version.
>> Actually, the preferred shebang line is of the form: "#!/usr/bin/env 
> python3". This way the end users can override the interpreter with, 
> say, a virtualenv, rather than being stuck with the system default.
>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:54 AM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com 
> <mailto:python at mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:
>> On 25/07/2013 14:42, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote:
>> If I execute a Python3 script with this haspling
> (#!/usr/bin/python3.3)
> and Python3.3 is not installed, but Python3.2 is installed,
> would the
> script still work? Would it fall back to Python3.2?
>> Why don't you try it?
>>> I hope Dihedral is listening. I would like to see another
> response from HIM.
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>>>>
Thanks Matthew Lefavor! But specifically, why use "#!/usr/bin/env 
python3" instead of "#!/usr/bin/python3"?
Mahalo,
DCJ
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