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Re: Shebang line on Windows?

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From Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com>
Date 2013-02-22 12:40 -0600
Subject Re: Shebang line on Windows?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> wrote:
> I use FreeBSD or Linux, but my son is learning Python and is using
> Windows.
>
> My question is this: Would it be good practice for him to put #!/usr/bin/
> env python at the top of his scripts, so that if made executable on *nix
> they will be OK? As I understand it this will have no effect on Windows
> itself.

Adding the shebang line on Windows would be excellent practice.  In
fact, Python 3.3 and later ships with the Python Launcher for Windows
[1] which is very effective at reading the shebang line and executing
the script with the proper Python installation.  It makes using Python
2.x and 3.x on the same Windows machine much less painful, as well as
not having to add anything to the PATH and being able to launch
whichever interpreter you want with a single command.

[1] http://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#python-launcher-for-windows

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Shebang line on Windows? Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com> - 2013-02-22 18:16 +0000
  Re: Shebang line on Windows? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-22 13:40 -0500
  Re: Shebang line on Windows? Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 12:40 -0600
    Re: Shebang line on Windows? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 14:53 -0800
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-22 23:21 +0000
      RE: Shebang line on Windows? "Sells, Fred" <fred.sells@adventistcare.org> - 2013-02-25 12:35 +0000
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-25 08:14 -0500
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> - 2013-02-25 07:28 -0600
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 00:54 +1100
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 10:18 -0700
        Re: Shebang line on Windows? Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2013-02-26 16:30 +0200
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net> - 2013-02-25 12:29 -0500
        Re: Shebang line on Windows? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-02-26 00:52 +0000
          Re: Shebang line on Windows? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 19:08 -0700
          Re: Shebang line on Windows? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-25 21:23 -0500
          Re: Shebang line on Windows? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-26 03:08 +0000
          Re: Shebang line on Windows? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-02-25 22:44 -0500
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? David Robinow <drobinow@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 13:19 -0500
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 11:29 -0700
      Re: Shebang line on Windows? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 11:33 -0700

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