compile shebang into pyc file

Joerg Schuster joerg.schuster at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 03:46:08 EDT 2005


> so you're saying that the set of people that can deal with
> no more than one
> file at a time but knows how to install and configure Python
> (which in itself
> comes with a few thousand files) is larger than zero?

Take me as an example: Very often, I needed software that could solve a
specific problem. I used to find, say, 10 different packages. Usually
none of the programs REALLY did the job as I wanted it to be done. Yet,
in order to find this out (or in order to find the package that suited
my needs best), I had to try out all of these packages. This used to
take an unnecessary amount of time.

I would have found (say) one java program, one c++ program, one Python
program, one perl program, ...

I know that java, c++, Python and Perl are all installed on our system.
And if they weren't, I would know how to install them myself: By using
yast or by saying 'apt-get install <package>'.

Yet: I don't want to have to know how to install all these packages in
all these different languages. I think a program should work out of the
box. And the should be no fumbling it out of the box.

Jörg




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