On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 06:25:57PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20080120 18:12], Oleg Broytmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On most Unicies #! magic may have only one parameter after the program; > >the program here is env, the parameter is python, and that's all. Adding > >python options will result in different errors - some platforms silently > >ignores the options, some reports an error, some tries to find "python -E -s" > >in the PATH and report "Bad command or file name". > > IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004: > > The shell reads its input
A shell has nothing to do with it as it is the OS (exec system call) that upon reading the magic of the file sees #! and executes the program (up to the first space) and pass to the program the first (and the only) parameter. #! /usr/bin/env python -O [trying to execute the script on Linux] /usr/bin/env: python -O: No such file or directory Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com