-On [20080502 05:26], Ben Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >I've never clearly understood why people want to use "#! /usr/bin/env >python", which is prone to finding a different Python from the one >installed by the operating system. I'd be interested to see what >responses are in favour of it, and what the reasoning is.
Simple, some systems are not as peculiar as a lot of Linux boxes which chug everything into /usr/bin, which is OS territory (as has been decreed long ago by hier(7)), but rather use /usr/local/bin (all BSD Unix and derivatives) or /opt or whatever convention a particular operating system has. And prone to find the wrong Python, it all depends upon proper $PATH administration. As such, your script with #!/usr/bin/python is as bad as an ash shell script with #!/bin/bash. #!/usr/bin/env python is more cross-OS friendly, there's more than just Linux you know. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B I dream of Love as Time runs through my hand... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
