[Fwd: directly executing a python script in Unix]

Eric Brunel eric.brunel at pragmadev.com
Tue Feb 5 04:46:08 EST 2002


> Here's my python fix for that moronic problem (moronic of Dos designers,
> who thought that two characters per line ending were a good idea when
> there already was a perfectly viable convention to follow, namely that of
> Unix. Perhaps they were following a VMS convention or somesuch, I don't
> know).

Nope: VMS accepted every known text format in the whole universe, including 
the most funky ones... They just over-used their creativity...




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