[Pythonmac-SIG] executing scripts on OS X

[John W Baxter]

At 19:50 +0900 7/9/2001, parks  kevin wrote:
>I am trying to get python going on my OS X partition. I was able to make a
>text file called hello.py and put in it the revolutionary and complex bit
>of code
>
>!#/usr/local/bin/python
>print "hello, fool!"
>
>
>Now when i did:
>
>% python hello.py
>
>everything was dandy.
>
>however i did the CHMOD bit to make the file executable and the tried
>sh-banging it
>
>% hello.py
>
>nothing. just hello.py: Command not found.
>i also tried :
>
>!#/usr/bin/python
>!#/usr/bin/env python

Two things:
1.  I hope you mean #! not !#.  And I think you do, because the latter
gives a traceback when I use
python hello.py

2.  On my machine, python as a command is a link:
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  25 Jun 22 18:08 /usr/bin/python ->
/usr/local/bin/python.exe

which python
will give you a starting point.

This is a "straight" install of the regular Python distribution, not MacPython.

  --John

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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA