Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta

Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by ninkendo on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:35PM (#30117785)

There's a bunch of places that can still get tripped up:

- scripts with `#!/usr/bin/python` instead of `#!/usr/bin/env python`

- shell scripts which call /usr/bin/python directly instead of the one in your path

- shell scripts which intentionally set a prefix in $PATH to some vendor directory with a custom python, but the vendoring is incomplete and leaky and it implicitly loads packages from your system python anyway

plus a hojillion other things I'm not thinking of...

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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by tsimionescu on Friday January 28, 2022 @04:59PM (#30120982)

But scripts calling /usr/bin/python want to use the "system" / "bundled" Python - why would you want those to run with your version of Python???

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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by kroltan on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:39PM (#30121453)

Because in 120% of situations, that "want" is actually "I had no clue how *nix works and just pasted in the result of `which python` in my system".

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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by tsimionescu on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:43PM (#30121489)

Do you think the same is true of #!/bin/bash? Why not?

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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta by eproxus on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:30PM (#30118507)

GUI apps also have their own special $PATH set via launchctl.

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