Fedora would like to enforce that python scripts installed into /usr/bin use the "-s" option.  We have tried to enforce this by doing:

python setup.py build --executable '/usr/bin/python2 -s'

However, as reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335203

this breaks scripts that already have options in them as the options are tacked onto the end, e.g.:

#!/usr/bin/python2 -s -E

Which linux doesn't handle.

It seems we have a couple options:

- Replace the entire shbang line with the argument to --executable
- Try to merge options into a single one (-sE)
- Have a separate option, say --executable-args to specify the options.  Although the question still remains as to whether or not to replace the existing option or append.

Yet one option:

- Add a wrapper /usr/bin/python2-s and pass it to to --executable.

$ cat /usr/bin/python2-s
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/python2 -s "$@"

As a distro Python maintainer, I have to say that having yet another Python executable would no be accepted well by the other distro contributors or even users.

I'll try to work on a proper solution that would merge the options, hopefully soon (but most likely not before the end of the year).

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