It would be nice if the tests tested what we'd built, not something different.

switch from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/env python. this doesn't help folks whose python path points at python3 (e.g. Arch linux) though, but I see no choice than they have to change the shebangs, as we do on Synapse.  For instance, OSX doesn't have a python2 symlink, otherwise we'd use /usr/bin/env python2 shebang.