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Re: Shebang line on Windows?

Date 2013-02-22 23:21 +0000
From MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>
Subject Re: Shebang line on Windows?
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On 2013-02-22 22:53, James Harris wrote:
> On Feb 22, 6:40 pm, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pyl...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@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.
>
> A word of warning unless this has since been resolved: Whenever I have
> tried adding the shebang line on Windows and running it on Unix the
> latter has complained about the carriage return at the end of the
> line. This means that Unix does not work when invoked as follows.
> (And, yes, the file has had chmod +x applied.)
>
>    ./program.py
>
> It is, of course, OK when run as
>
>    python program.py
>
> but that removes some of the benefit of the shebang line.
>
Just use Unix line endings. Python will accept them, and any decent editor
on Windows will accept them. (Notepad doesn't.)

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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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