Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.fr7!fx02.am4.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <53571A75.8090902@127.0.0.1> From: Andrew Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Strange syntax error, occurs only when script is executed directly [solved] References: <535644A4.6060901@rece.vub.ac.be> <53565ECE.2060307@rece.vub.ac.be> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.25.227.93 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: 1398217329 82.25.227.93 (Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:42:09 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:42:09 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 02:42:13 +0100 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2280735068 X-Received-Bytes: 1866 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:70524 On 22/04/2q014 13:26, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Antoon Pardon > wrote: >> Yes that was it. I changed the first line of my script to: >> >> #!/opt/local/bin/python2.7 >> >> and it now works. > > Excellent! Shebangs are *extremely* specific, so you may want to > consider using "/usr/bin/env python" to get a bit more flexibility. > (Or "python2" or "python2.7" in place of "python", depending on how > specific you want to be.) > > ChrisA > `man execve` "The interpreter must be a valid pathname for an executable which is not itself a script." This is (presumably) to avoid recursive walks of the filesystem trying to locate a valid interpreter to splat over the virtual address space of the currently executing process. ~Andrew