-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 10:40 AM 12/18/2008 -0500, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:20:28 +0100, Felix Schwarz >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Phillip J. Eby schrieb: >>>> At 10:17 PM 12/17/2008 +0100, Felix Schwarz wrote: >>>>> Ian Bicking schrieb: >>>>>> Does this work? >>>>>> #!/usr/bin/env "/path/to/weird path/python" >>>>> No (at least not for me). >>>> Did you actually try that, as opposed to the version you showed >>>> before? There *is* a difference. >>> Of course I tried. :-) >>> I just tried again and it still does not work. However I noticed >>> that it works without any quoting for me too. Which I thought I tried >>> before... >>> >>> So for me (using Fedora Linux with Python 2.5, nothing unusual) the >>> solution would be to add >>> /usr/bin/env <unquoted path> >>> >>> Probably this is the way to go forward. Let's see if the behavior >>> is different for BSDs (I have neither a Mac nor any BSD-based >>> system available right now). >> OS X results (note, ~/foo exists and is a directory): > > Hm. So no matter what, it's not going to work on OS X; I guess that > means we could just go with the way that works on Linux. ;-) > > It appears that OS X is doing what I'd expect a *BSD to - it's > splitting the #! line on spaces and feeding each one to env as a > separate argument -- quotes and all. > > The only other way to do this that I can think of would be to write > the file with a bilingual shell script header, such that it does an > exec of the appropriate Python on $0. That would work on all > platforms, at the cost of incurring an extra exec -- but then, > /bin/env does that too.
I would way rather see that kind of solution than using 'env': scripts installed by easy_install should *not* use whatever python happens to be found at the moment on PATH. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJSxvn+gerLs4ltQ4RAoGpAJ41Xur84yvoRyVjmOxI041xqp1lgQCeK+qG ODdMvlZ2S2SUWIvMUOlag00= =ZgH0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
