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Re: Python path on windows

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Date Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:51:53 -0500
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On 02/20/2015 09:43 AM, loial wrote:
> On Linux we use
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> At the start of scripts to ensure that the python executable used is the one defined in the PATH variable, rather than hardcoding a path to the python executable.
>
> What is the equivalent functionality in Windows?
>

Depends on Python version.  In newer versions, there is a py.exe file 
which they put on their path.  Then in the registry is a two-stage 
association between the .py and .pyw extensions and the above executable.

Finally, when py.exe starts, it reads that first (shebang) line, and 
decides which python interpreter to actually use.

One problem I've heard about is that if someone installs 2.7 on top of 
3.x, it can wipe out the file associations, and mess this stuff up.

The py.exe can be separately installed, to use on older python versions.

This all happened after I cut loose from Windows.

-- 
DaveA

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Python  path on windows loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2015-02-20 06:43 -0800
  Re: Python  path on windows Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-02-20 09:51 -0500
  Re: Python path on windows Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-20 07:54 -0700
    Re: Python path on windows loial <jldunn2000@gmail.com> - 2015-02-20 07:16 -0800
      Re: Python path on windows Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-20 11:25 -0700
      Re: Python path on windows Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-20 18:31 +0000
      Re: Python path on windows Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2015-02-20 21:32 +0100
  Re: Python  path on windows wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-02-20 07:20 -0800
  Re: Python path on windows Gisle Vanem <gvanem@yahoo.no> - 2015-02-21 12:05 +0100
  Re: Python path on windows Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-21 12:36 +0000
  Re: Python path on windows Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-02-21 09:10 -0500
  Re: Python path on windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-22 01:40 +1100

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