Sebastian 'lunar' Wiesner wrote: >>>> no, I'm showing that a local file marked as executable overrides a >>>> shared one, even if the local file isn't actually an executable. >>> >>> Only if you have your system set up badly. The current directory >>> should not be in the search path, and it especially shouldn't have >>> higher priority than the regular bin locations. >> >> and the award for completely missing the context of this subthread >> goes to... > > Nevertheless his comment was absolutely correct...
nope. a Unix system uses the same flag to determine if a file is executable no matter how I've set up my path. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list