Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!usenet-fr.net!nerim.net!novso.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'scripts': 0.03; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'url:bitbucket': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'executable': 0.09; 'formatting': 0.09; 'friday,': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'variable,': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'paragraphs,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'spacing': 0.16; 'subject:windows': 0.16; 'url:windows': 0.16; 'utc,': 0.16; 'windows?': 0.16; 'prevent': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thanks.': 0.20; 'feb': 0.22; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; 'url:moin': 0.24; 'looks': 0.24; 'equivalent': 0.26; 'defined': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header :In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'url:wiki': 0.31; 'post.': 0.31; 'linux': 0.33; 'url:python': 0.33; 'skip:# 10': 0.33; 'google': 0.35; 'version': 0.36; '2.6': 0.36; 'url:listinfo': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'aside': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'ensure': 0.60; 'read': 0.60; 'ian': 0.60; 'url:3': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'our': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; '20,': 0.68; '2015': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python path on windows Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:31:20 +0000 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-24-222-48.ppp.as43234.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 39 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1424457100 news.xs4all.nl 2906 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34353 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:85985 On 20/02/2015 15:16, loial wrote: > On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 2:54:26 PM UTC, Ian wrote: >> On Feb 20, 2015 7:46 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? >> >> https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#launcher >> >> Note that while the launcher can be used with any version of Python, it is only packaged with 3.3+. > > Vesrion is 2.6 > See https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/pylauncher As an aside it looks from the formatting above as if you're using google groups to post. If that is the case would you please access this list via https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list or read and action this https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing double line spacing and single line paragraphs, thanks. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence