Just to add my $0.02 for completeness: People use:
#!/usr/bin/env python so that the script will work on any system with a python on the PATH, whether it's in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin or wherever else. Particularly on Linux systems, python gets installed different places depending on whether it's supplied by the distribution or installed separately. I personally like this approach. Some suggest that you put /usr/local/bin on your path ahead of /usr/bin so that your shell will find the your user-installed python first. This works fine except for a couple things: 1) if the script is run in someone else's shell that hasn't been set up that way, it won't work. 2) if there is something else in /usr/local/bin that is the same as a counterpart in /usr/bin, you could accidentally cause problems there. 3) What happens when you install python2.5 and have a bunch of scripts still relying on 2.4? My thought is that you want to control what a python script does, NOT what your shell does. In this case, what you want is for your script to use python2.4, rather than "the python that happens to be first on the path", or "the python that happens to be in /usr/local/bin", so what you do is put: #!/usr/bin/env python2.4 At the top. This guarantees that that script will use python2.4, and also documents, for all to see, that that's the version of python that it's been tested on. When installing packages, use: python2.4 setup.py install. I think the standard installers put a "python2.4" as well as "python" in usr/local/bin. If they don't, they should, and until then, you can put in a link yourself: cd /usr/local/bin sudo ln python python2.4 (untested) I really wish specifying the version would become standard practice in python development. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer NOAA/OR&R/HAZMAT (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig