On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2014-04-22 22:52, Chris Angelico wrote: >> I'm pretty sure the POSIX standard stipulates that a space there is >> optional. Should be no difference between "#!/" and "#! /" on any >> compliant OS. (But I can't right now find a citation for that, so I >> may be wrong.) > > I wondered this too, so went researching and found this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29#Magic_number > > which said that there was actually some contention that the space was > required, but that the specs state that both with-and-without are > permissible.
Yeah, I read the Wikipedia page, but was looking for a citable standards document, and didn't find one. (Which may just mean I didn't look hard enough. Wasn't going to spend an hour on it.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list