Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[Erik Max Francis]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> I usually install Python 2.x in /usr/local and put
> /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin in my PATH.  Then I do
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> In my scripts.

Note that relying on /usr/bin/env is not always the best solution. 
First, on some weird platforms, env isn't in /usr/bin; and second, env
relies on your PATH, which can be different under varying circumstances
-- for instance, if you relied on env to find a custom installed python
under /usr/local, a cron job running a Python script using env would
find the wrong one, since /usr/local/bin is not in the PATH of a cron
job.

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