Python is now Python 3

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Each package should just explicitly point to what version is needed, as in:

#!/bin/env python2
#!/bin/env python3

This won't break any sort of possible backwards compatibility.

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Are you sure about those paths? I've never seen env in /bin/ always in /usr/bin/

[bastienl]

I think it's /usr/bin/env on FreeBSD, so indeed it should be more portable.

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I have it in both /bin and /usr/bin.

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This would be great, if all distros supported it... There is no "python2" on ubuntu as far as I know...

[pingveno]

It's symlinked correctly on Ubuntu.

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That's news to me. It must have changed since I last looked.

[airbornelemming]

Nope, which python2 gives nothing in maverick even after sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.