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Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 02:17:11 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 12/01/2014 05:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>> Put the above somewhere in your path (e.g. /usr/local/bin), make it ex=
ecutable, and then instead of shebanging your
>> scripts with `/usr/local/bin/python` you can use `/usr/local/bin/py_ma=
in`, which will load and execute the script,
>> calling script.main as its last act.
>=20
> Be aware that this trick (shebanging to a script rather than a binary)
> isn't specified by the POSIX standard. It works on Linux, but I don't
> know about other systems.=20

Ah, thanks for that!

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~Ethan~


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