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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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 18:23:07 +0100
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To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
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Hi Mathieu,

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:52:41 +0100
Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> wrote:

> I think it would work better if when installing python@3, a =E2=80=98pyth=
on=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.

For backward compatibility, the 'python' executable always has to be Python=
 2.

A lot of old scripts specify just "/usr/bin/env python" in the shebang.

On the other hand if your script supports Python 3 you know it.