#!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python?

[Michał Bartoszkiewicz]

On 2006-08-09 at 08:02:03 (+0200), Stephan Kuhagen wrote:
> Don't yell at me for bringing in another language, but I really like the
> trick, Tcl does:
> 
> >    #!/bin/sh
> >    # The next line starts Tcl \
> >    exec tclsh "$0" "$@"
> 
> This works by the somewhat weird feature of Tcl, that allows comments to be
> continued in the next line with "\" at the end of the comment-line. It
> looks unfamiliar, but has several advantages, I think. First it's really
> VERY unlikely, that there is no /bin/sh (while I found systems with
> different places for env), and you can add some other features at or before
> the actual call of the interpreter, i.e. finding the right or preferred
> version... - This way I coded a complete software-installer, that runs
> either as a Tcl/Tk-Script with GUI, or as bash-script, when no Tcl is
> available. - I really would like to have something like that for python,
> but I did not find a way to achieve that, yet.

You could use:
  #!/bin/sh
  """exec" python "$0" "$@"""
:)

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