[Distutils] Re: FW: weird problem with startup

[Greg Ward]

[BTW: distutils questions belong on distutils-sig at python.org]

On 27 May 2003, Paul Dubois said:
> However if one of my users has a path with a different Python in it before
> the one I specify, on some platforms (AIX and tru64 (decs) in particular)
> the end result is that "their" Python is run on my script.

That sounds like a platform oddity in handling the #! line.  If some
Unix kernel doesn't handle #! lines in the standard way, there's not
much the distutils can do.

> If I put #!/usr/bin/env /path/to/python in my script, it works, but on some
> but not all platforms distutils replaces that line with the /path/to/python
> one and then it fails.

Yeah, the code that munges the #! line -- specifically, the regex that
looks for a "#!.*python" line -- has changed a bit over time.  The
result is that you should *not* use "#!/usr/bin/env python" in scripts
that are to be distributed and installed by the distutils, even if it
happens to work with your particular version of Python.

        Greg
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