python shebang in python3 tarball files

[arekm]

BPO	39254
Nosy	@arekm
Superseder	bpo-41626: port shebang of tools from python2 to python3

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labels = ['build', '3.8']
title = 'python shebang in python3 tarball files'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue39254'
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[arekm]

Python 3.8.1 files:

    [Lib/encodings/rot_13.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/encodings/rot_13.py) \
    [Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/different_encoding.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/different_encoding.py) \
    [Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/false_encoding.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/false_encoding.py) \
    [Tools/gdb/libpython.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/gdb/libpython.py) \
    [Tools/pynche/pynche](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/pynche/pynche) \
    [Tools/pynche/pynche.pyw](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/pynche/pynche.pyw) \
    [Tools/scripts/2to3](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/scripts/2to3) \
    [Tools/scripts/smelly.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/scripts/smelly.py) \
    python-gdb.py

are calling python (which often points to python2) while should be calling python3 explicitly (unless python2 is required for using these which would be weird in Python 3 package)

[arekm]

These look to be python2 files. Since python2 is close to EOL should these be ported to python3?

There are more of these in git:

    [Lib/encodings/rot_13.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/encodings/rot_13.py) \
    [Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/different_encoding.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/different_encoding.py) \
    [Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/false_encoding.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/lib2to3/tests/data/false_encoding.py) \
    [Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py) \
    [Modules/_sha3/cleanup.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Modules/_sha3/cleanup.py) \
    [Objects/typeslots.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Objects/typeslots.py) \
    [Parser/asdl_c.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Parser/asdl_c.py) \
    [Python/makeopcodetargets.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Python/makeopcodetargets.py) \
    [Tools/gdb/libpython.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/gdb/libpython.py) \
    [Tools/pynche/pynche](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/pynche/pynche) \
    [Tools/pynche/pynche.pyw](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/pynche/pynche.pyw) \
    [Tools/scripts/2to3](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/scripts/2to3) \
    [Tools/scripts/smelly.py](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Tools/scripts/smelly.py)