2 Newbie questions.

[Len Sumnler]

Steven Bethard wrote:
> Len Sumnler <pcslen <at> comcast.net> writes:
> 
>>I have searched the net and performed chmod +x mypython.py and added as the 
>>first line of my program #!/usr/bin/env python.  When I try to run the 
>>program as follows $ mypython.py I get the error message of, "bash: 
>>mypython.py: command not found".  What am i doing wrong.
> 
> 
> Not really a Python question, but maybe I can help anyway.  A couple of things 
> to check:
> 
> 1) Does "/usr/bin/env python" work at the shell prompt?  If not you probably 
> don't have python on your path.
> 
> 2) If "/usr/bin/env python" does work for you from the shell, did you create 
> mypython.py on a Windows machine?  I've gotten these errors occasionally when 
> moving a script from a Windows box to a Unix box because the shell doesn't 
> like the \r's that Windows puts at the end of lines.  You could try using 
> dos2unix or a similar script to remove these.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
Hello Steve

	Thank you for the response I think this gives me a better understanding 
of whats going on and the response on the windows will help because I do 
plan to use python on both Linux and Windows machines.

Thanks
Len Sumnler