Making Programs Executable

[Steve Holden]

"David Lees" <debl2nopeSpammywhammy at bellatlantic.net> wrote (in the wrong
order, but we'll forgive his top-posting this once) ...
>
> seraphim wrote:
> >
> > I am reading the Python tutorial, and they say to use '#! /usr/bin/env
> > python' as the first line to be able to execute the program withought
> > having to type 'python file'. I am getting a bad interpreter error. I
> > am running Slackware 8.0 and Red Hat 7.3 as well. Any help would be
> > nice.

> You might want to check path to your python interpreter.  Try 'which
> python' .  Perhaps you don't have the correct path.
>

He certainly has the correct path to "env". The whole point of that
construct is to avoid the need to know the path to the Python interpreter.

regards
 Steve
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