Fw: Re: [Tutor] Python

[Michael Lange]

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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:31:59 +0100
From: Michael Lange <klappnase at freenet.de>
To: Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Python


On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:01:24 -0800 (PST)
Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Really? I always thought you could run any text file
> using the python command, 

Ooops, sorry, of course you are right here

and that you need to do
> chmod +x to run it standalone.
> 

you can pass options to chmod in different ways, chmod +x makes the file
executable for anyone (what's well enough here of course), the octals in chmod 755
define the read and write permissions as well.

Regards

Michael