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Re: Change the python interpretor to use /usr/bin/env python3


From: Darshit Shah
Subject: Re: Change the python interpretor to use /usr/bin/env python3
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:02:08 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20180323

Hi,

Sorry for the sparse details. I was confused the first time I saw the issue as
well, but then I forgot to mention all the details.

I was trying to test building GNU Wget2 in a Fedora 27 docker container.
So, the I am talking about Fedora 27 on x86-64. But not the full version, just
what is available in the Docker container.

> address@hidden /]# ls -l /usr/bin/python*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     9 Feb  8 14:46 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.6
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11240 Feb  8 14:46 /usr/bin/python3.6
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11240 Feb  8 14:46 /usr/bin/python3.6m

> address@hidden /]# dnf list --installed python*
> Installed Packages
> python3.x86_64                                                                
>       3.6.4-8.fc27                                                            
> @koji-override-0
> python3-dbus.x86_64                                                           
>       1.2.4-8.fc27                                                            
> @anaconda
> python3-dnf.noarch                                                            
>       2.7.5-2.fc27                                                            
> @koji-override-0
> python3-gpg.x86_64                                                            
>       1.9.0-6.fc27                                                            
> @anaconda
> python3-hawkey.x86_64                                                         
>       0.11.1-1.fc27                                                           
> @koji-override-0
> python3-iniparse.noarch                                                       
>       0.4-26.fc27                                                             
> @anaconda
> python3-libcomps.x86_64                                                       
>       0.1.8-6.fc27                                                            
> @anaconda
> python3-librepo.x86_64                                                        
>       1.8.0-1.fc27                                                            
> @anaconda
> python3-libs.x86_64                                                           
>       3.6.4-8.fc27                                                            
> @koji-override-0
> python3-pip.noarch                                                            
>       9.0.1-14.fc27                                                           
> @koji-override-0
> python3-rpm.x86_64                                                            
>       4.14.1-1.fc27                                                           
> @koji-override-0
> python3-setuptools.noarch                                                     
>       37.0.0-1.fc27                                                           
> @koji-override-0
> python3-six.noarch                                                            
>       1.11.0-1.fc27                                                           
> @anaconda

As you can see here, only Python 3 is installed in the base system. However,
contrary to expectations, python3 does not provide /usr/bin/python. That binary
is provided by the `python2` package on Fedora. Since python2 is not installed
by default in the docker container, this means that only the "/usr/bin/python3"
binary is available on that system.

However, I was mistaken about the call to `#!/usr/bin/env python` working. Only
`#!/usr/bin/env python3` works. Since Python 3 is the version that is being
specifically targeted, could we please change it to reflect that? As far as I'm
aware, all systems with Python 3 installed always have a python3 binary
available in $PATH. However, a /usr/bin/python may point to python 2 or 3.

* Dmitry Selyutin <address@hidden> [180402 09:44]:
> Hello,
> 
> thank you for investigating this. I'm joining to questions asked by Paul;
> moreover, as far as I know specifying python is usually the most correct
> way to make python work regardless of version (i.e. it is supposed that one
> day there will be no distinction between python and python3).
> FWIW, the future reimplementation will drop python 2 entirely. And "python"
> branch uses /usr/bin/python too.
> 
> пн, 2 апр. 2018 г., 6:52 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Could you please clarify this? Which Fedora release and architecture, and
> > what
> > What is the output of 'ls -l /usr/bin/python*' and of 'dnf list --installed
> > 'python*''? That sort of thing. I don't understand why '#!/usr/bin/python'
> > would
> > fail at the same time that '#!/usr/bin/env python' worked. Thanks.
> >
> >

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah
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