Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.42!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.247.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python code file prototype Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:25:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <66ea0353-02ee-4152-947a-97b44ff3ec45@p7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208-38-194-91.mammothnetworks.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1329578723 13264 208.38.194.91 (18 Feb 2012 15:25:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:25:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:20586 On 2012-02-17, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:55:46 -0700, Ian Kelly > wrote: > >> >>The shebang has to be the first thing in the file to be useful. As it >>is above, it might as well not be there. I would suggest also >>including a doc string in the skeleton. >> > Of course, since the OP was talking Windows... the #! line is > ignored no matter where it was That depends. It always used to work for me, but I'm usually using bash and Cygwin.