Gustavo Carneiro, 24.07.2013 19:16: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >> On 7/24/2013 5:12 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: >>> Hi all, in recent days, there has been a discussion on fedora-devel >>> (see thread [1]) about moving to Python 3 as a default. >> >> Not being a current *nix user, I have no opinion on the specific >> alternatives. However, I am concerned about newcomers being mis-served by >> being mislead into thinking that 'Python' is python 2 rather python 3. We >> see this in some newbie posts on Python list. (This is especially a concern >> when default Python is still, say, 2.5.) I have no idea, though, how to >> avoid breaking scripts while directing newcomers in the proper direction. > > Maybe we could make interactive python2 scripts print a big warning > advising users to use python 3 instead of 2, if possible?
Well, what I think could be done is to have the Py2 interpreter output a warning if an unpostfixed shebang is found in an executed script. That would eventually push users into either using the explicit "/usr/bin/env python2", or port to Py3 straight away (or both). Stefan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
