Re: Wget2 bootstrap and "Unknown option: --"

[Darshit Shah]

Interesting.. Thanks for the report.

However, it may make sense to keep this behavior since I don't think 
that the script is compatible with Python 2. I'll have to check it 
again. I will likely change the behaviour to explicitly check for Python 
3 and fall back to the bourne shell script instead.

On 8/10/20 6:44 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone/Tim,
>
> Are you guys interested in this? It's from a Ubuntu 4 system. Python
> is there, but it is antique.
>
> What I have found is, the best way to check Python's version is
> 'python -V'. It works on old and new Python.
>
> Jeff
>
> ----
>
> Unknown option: --
> usage: python [option] ... [-c cmd | file | -] [arg] ...
> Try `python -h' for more information.
> ./bootstrap: Error: 'python' not found
>
> ./bootstrap: Please install the prerequisite programs
>
> ----
>
> And:
>
> $ python --version
> Unknown option: --
>
> $ python -V
> Python 2.3.4