[arch-general] a plea for python 2

[Sander Jansen]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Am 14.12.2011 23:24, schrieb Evan Martin:
>>> What I don't understand is why you're manually patching upstream
>>> software to rewrite references from /usr/bin/python to
>>> /usr/bin/python2.  This sort of forking is exactly the sort of
>>> divergence (like how Ubuntu modified their GTK to add their own
>>> specific hooks) that I was fleeing from when I came to Arch.
>>
>> There's no forking here. Python 2 is end-of-life, python 3 is current.
>> Applications that set a 'python' shebang, but require 'python2' are
>> *broken*, we *fix* them.
>>
>
> This is how I feel about the current situation also.
>
> The pep clearly defines that you should only be using python2 or
> python3 in your shebangs, and that python should be ideally used only
> to invoke interactive sessions.
>
> The fact that programmers and distro python packagers ignore this is
> not our fault.

"Until the conventions described in this PEP are more widely adopted,
having python invoke python2 will remain the recommended option."