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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2015-10-02 21:45 GMT+02:00 Ian Woloschin <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> OS X has a builtin Python (on 10.10 it's Python 2.7.10, located at
> /usr/bin/python).  Can't you just use that, as it's provided by the system
> already and (almost) guaranteed to be there?  Particularly on 10.11 since
> SIP would prevent it from being touched...
>
> Most Linux distributions also automatically provide Python (BUT SOME HAVE
> JUMPED TO PYTHON3 ONLY!!!), and it's a lot of work to get rid of it since
> many utilities rely on it.  I think it'd be safe to assume it's there, or
> the package managers can get it there.

I don't know a linux distro where it is not just a matter of
installing the python2 package, and make sure that whoever invokes the
python that requires python2 also do that.