mentos.py uses /usr/bin/python, desires python2.

[damianb]

Not sure how many distros are doing this now, but I know a few are using "python2" to indicate python 2.x nowadays - and some have set /usr/bin/python to mean python 3.x.

[muoji]

Archlinux is doing this, and it's causing me problems.

I saw that the call to mentos.py is only done with the path to the file and relying on its shebang to call python. I think it could be not too hard to implement a way to configure pygments to specify a path to python and then using it to call mentos.py.
It would solve the problem for distros that now use /usr/bin/python for python3, without breaking backward compatibility.

[damianb]

PING. Come on, seriously. This is one hell of an annoying problem to leave for months on end. Can't you check to see if the /usr/bin/python2 executable exists in the filesystem and use that over /usr/bin/python?

[pidpawel]

Problem exists on Gentoo too.

[madhatter]

Another ping. I really would like to have this fixed.

[seven1m]

+1

[mindfulmonk]

For those using rbenv and Arch Linux:
vim .rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p392/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/pygments.rb-0.4.2/lib/pygments/mentos.py
and change it to look like this
#!/usr/bin/env python2

[tnm]

Should be resolved in latest release.