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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: bug#30437: No =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C.guix-profile/bin/python=E2=80=9D?=
	after =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98guix?= package -i =?UTF-8?Q?python=E2=80=99?=
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:00:57 +0100
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Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 06:23:07PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> Hi Mathieu,
>>=20
>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:52:41 +0100
>> Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> wrote:
>>=20
>> > I think it would work better if when installing python@3, a =E2=80=98p=
ython=E2=80=99
>> > executable would be available in the PATH.  Maybe there is a technical
>> > reason for not doing so, but I find its absence rather confusing.
>>=20
>> For backward compatibility, the 'python' executable always has to be Pyt=
hon 2.
>>=20
>> A lot of old scripts specify just "/usr/bin/env python" in the shebang.
>>=20
>> On the other hand if your script supports Python 3 you know it.
>>=20
>
> We do also have the 'python-wrapper' package which uses python3 as
> python

Closing because it=E2=80=99s not a bug.

--=20
Ricardo

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