Python scripts wont run - HELP

[John Abel]

windozbloz wrote:

>Bye Bye Billy Bob...
>
>Hello All,
>I'm a fairly literate windoz amateur programmer mostly in visual basic. I
>have switched to SuSE 9.2 Pro and am trying to quickly come up to speed
>with Python 2.3.4.  I can run three or four line scripts from the command
>line but have not been able to execute a script from a file.  
>
>I have used EMACS and JEDIT to create small test routines.  I would right
>click the file and set properties to executable.  I would then click the
>icon, the bouncy ball would do its thing then a dialog box would flash on
>the screen for a fraction of a second.  I could tell it had a progress bar
>on it but could not catch anything else on it.  Then nothing else would
>happen.
>
>If I could execute a script the world would once again be my playground...
>PLEASE HELP.
>
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You will need to include

#!/usr/bin/python

At the top of your script.

HTH

J