In particular, this applies to Arch Linux's default configuration.

All of our scripts run on all platforms, and that PEP explicitly excludes windows, saying that the problem is "too complex to handle".

Robbie, do you know if amending our shebang lines to all be "python2" would work on our *nix distributions, and would work on our depot_tools hermetic python installs?

The "too complex to handle" portion is regarding being able to execute the scripts directly (`foo.py` instead of `python foo.py`), since Windows doesn't natively support shebangs, instead relying on a file-type=>application mapping) This was solved for Windows by having a `py` launcher command that will parse the shebang line and run the correct python in accordance with PEP394.

But if you're running explicitly with `python`, as depot_tools does, PEP394 is the chosen reasonable solution to ensure portability.

I did discover that the python.org Windows downloads do not include aliases for python2/python3, but those are easy enough to add. (It looks like depot_tools already adds a `python` alias on Windows)

Welp, we'll see if this works :)

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/chromium/tools/depot_tools/+/756208

FWIW, this is what I'm presently using:
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/tools/depot_tools/+/746142

 Issue 782495  has been merged into this issue.

 Issue 820717  has been merged into this issue.

i'm not sure if this the rigth bug to post this, but, seems need also edit these files

    build/download_nacl_toolchains.py
    build/linux/unbundle/remove_bundled_libraries.py
    build/linux/unbundle/replace_gn_files.py
    tools/clang/scripts/update.py
    tools/gn/bootstrap/bootstrap.py
    third_party/dom_distiller_js/protoc_plugins/*.py
    third_party/ffmpeg/chromium/scripts/build_ffmpeg.py
    third_party/ffmpeg/chromium/scripts/generate_gn.py

this files also point to python instead of python2

greetings

seems all nacl/pnacl (nacl_client) need set also python2 in all scripts

Unassigning from myself because I'm on sabbatical.