Hank Wilkinson wrote: > I am trying to do script in python using "./" > Here is a session showing "bad interpreter: No such file or directory" > Is this a python question/problem?
It's a bash problem. The shell cannot cope with Windows line endings: ^M in the error message stands for chr(13) or Carriage Return. > -bash: ./hello.py: /usr/local/bin/python3.1^M: bad interpreter: No such > file or directory John-Wilkinsons-iMac:p31summerfield wilkinson$ echo There is a utility program called dos2unix to convert line endings, but I don't know if it's available on the Mac. $ cat -v tmp.py #!/usr/bin/python^M print "hello"^M $ ./tmp.py bash: ./tmp.py: /usr/bin/python^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory $ dos2unix tmp.py $ ./tmp.py hello $ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
