Re: Strange syntax error, occurs only when script is executed directly [solved]

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Date	2014-04-22 23:07 +1000
Subject	Re: Strange syntax error, occurs only when script is executed directly [solved]
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.9440.1398172053.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Antoon Pardon
<antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> On 22-04-14 14:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Antoon Pardon
>> <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
>>> Yes that was it. I changed the first line of my script to:
>>>
>>> #!/opt/local/bin/python2.7
>>>
>>> and it now works.
>> Excellent! Shebangs are *extremely* specific, so you may want to
>> consider using "/usr/bin/env python" to get a bit more flexibility.
>
> The problem with that is that it doesn't work if python is not on
> the (standard) path, like in this case.

Ah! Well, that's why I said "consider using" rather than "you should use" :)

ChrisA

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Re: Strange syntax error, occurs only when script is executed directly [solved] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-22 23:07 +1000

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