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

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  Re: Strange syntax error, occurs only when script is executed directly [solved] Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2014-04-22 15:01 +0200

#70507 — Re: Strange syntax error, occurs only when script is executed directly [solved]

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.

-- 
Antoon Pardon

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