Shebang or Hashbang for modules or not?

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Sat Apr 21 14:45:31 EDT 2007


Jorgen Grahn a écrit :
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:46:03 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> 
>>Jorgen Grahn a écrit :
> 
(snip)
> 
>>More seriously, and as far as I'm concerned, when I want to make a 
>>python script (by opposition to a python 'module') available as a unix 
>>command, I either use a symlink or a shell script calling the python 
>>script.
> 
> 
> A symlink yes, but a shell script? Wouldn't it be easier to write a
> one-liner (well, two-liner) Python script in that case?

Not necessarily. Just like there are cases where it makes sens to use 
Perl instead of Python, some things are really far simpler to do with 
shell scripts...



More information about the Python-list mailing list