terminator not starting when default python is python3.4 but works if it is python2.7

[PhilippeR]

On Ubuntu 15.10 (Unity) when changing the symlink /usr/bin/python from python2.7 to python3.4 then terminator (v0.97) won t start anymore. Do you know what the problem could be and how to fix it? Thank you :)

[A. Lloyd Flanagan (a-lloyd-flanagan)]

/usr/bin/python is the system python and is assumed by many system utilities to be Python 2, not Python 3. Python3.4 is not backwards-compatible with Python 2. Basically: don't do that, you'll break a lot more than just Terminator, including (probably) critical system utilities.

That said, python 2 won't be the system default forever, and Terminator should think about migrating to Python 3, or at least changing the #! line to "/usr/bin/python2".

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

The #! line has indeed been changed to use python2 in rev 1655, just after the 1.90 release for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/terminator/+bug/1621156

Once we get gtk3 stable and a proper 2.0 release then I'll start thinking about the python3 transition. Till then, I'll mark this as fix comitted.

[PhilippeR (2-philippe)]

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

On 2 February 2017 at 01:10, Stephen Boddy <email address hidden>
wrote:

> The #! line has indeed been changed to use python2 in rev 1655, just
> after the 1.90 release for
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/terminator/+bug/1621156
>
> Once we get gtk3 stable and a proper 2.0 release then I'll start
> thinking about the python3 transition. Till then, I'll mark this as fix
> comitted.
>
> ** Changed in: terminator
> Status: New => Fix Committed
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> Bug description:
> On Ubuntu 15.10 (Unity) when changing the symlink /usr/bin/python from
> python2.7 to python3.4 then terminator (v0.97) won t start anymore. Do
> you know what the problem could be and how to fix it? Thank you :)
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