Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news1.tnib.de!feed.news.tnib.de!news.tnib.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!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 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'linux,': 0.05; 'removes': 0.05; 'executable': 0.07; 'subject:Windows': 0.09; 'python': 0.09; '22,': 0.09; 'follows.': 0.09; 'scripts,': 0.09; 'itself.': 0.11; '(and,': 0.16; 'carriage': 0.16; 'chmod': 0.16; 'complained': 0.16; 'decent': 0.16; 'from:addr:mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:python': 0.16; 'from:name:mrab': 0.16; 'message- id:@mrabarnett.plus.com': 0.16; 'received:84.93': 0.16; 'received:84.93.230': 0.16; 'resolved:': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'windows': 0.19; 'feb': 0.19; 'latter': 0.22; 'this:': 0.23; 'tried': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.26; 'question': 0.27; 'run': 0.28; 'fri,': 0.30; 'file': 0.32; 'received:84': 0.32; 'running': 0.32; 'to:addr :python-list': 0.33; 'pm,': 0.35; 'subject:?': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'editor': 0.37; 'does': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:192': 0.39; 'received:192.168': 0.40; 'end': 0.40; 'son': 0.60; 'header:Reply- To:1': 0.68; 'benefit': 0.70; 'reply-to:no real name:2**0': 0.72; '2013': 0.84; 'ok?': 0.84; 'reply-to:addr:python.org': 0.84; 'ware': 0.91 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=HO4d4PRv c=1 sm=1 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:17 a=_vX2mLoUpDQA:10 a=_0h3fVwFhPYA:10 a=ihvODaAuJD4A:10 a=OUOv7kDek9cA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=EBOSESyhAAAA:8 a=8AHkEIZyAAAA:8 a=huZuRs1bUIYA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=UQnXkbzPAAAA:8 a=GH-SWoS8azN96L1Er3wA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=Q21-j9j7q-gA:10 a=0nF1XD0wxitMEM03M9B4ZQ==:117 X-AUTH: mrabarnett:2500 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:21:12 +0000 From: MRAB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Shebang line on Windows? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: python-list@python.org 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: 33 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1361575278 news.xs4all.nl 6875 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:55841 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:39623 On 2013-02-22 22:53, James Harris wrote: > On Feb 22, 6:40 pm, Zachary Ware > wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Walter Hurry 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.)