script portability trick

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <bebbba07.0201171203.4ce00461 at posting.google.com>,
Russ <18k11tm001 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>A traditional unix trick in Tcl/Tk is to start scripts like this:
>
>#!/bin/sh
># the next line starts wish \
>exec wish "$0" "$@"
>
>This causes the Bourne shell to search the user's executable path to
>find wish each time the script is executed. Because the script doesn't
>depend on wish being in a particular directory, it is more portable
>(sh is almost always in /bin, but wish can be anywhere).
>
>Is there a similar trick for Python? Thanks.

The standard gimmick for Python is:

#!/usr/bin/env python
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