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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:46:50 +0100
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On 01/06/2015 09:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> How do you run it in Windows 7? The hashbang line
> 
>     #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> is for Linux and Unix, and won't work on Windows. So you must be doing 
> something to execute the file. What is that?

Actually, it will for anywhere with a recent Python 3.x or where the
standalone launcher has been installed:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397/
(cf particularly the section "Python Script Launching")

Of course, I don't know if the OP does in fact have
the launcher installed, but if they do then the answer is: py.exe.

Even if the launcher isn't installed, Windows will happily run a .py
file via the file extension association, assuming that this has been
selected when installing Python (which it is, by default, ISTR).

TJG