On 7-Aug-08, at 9:45 AM, Mike Covill wrote:
On 7-Aug-08, at 9:34 AM, Pascal Bompard wrote:
Returning to this 3 week old chestnut, (apologies for delay - my
second child was born in the interim), and thanks to all who
attempted to help, but I am still struggling with this issue.
Christopher Barker wrote:
If you have scripts you want to run from anywhere, make them
executable:
This is exactly what I need to occur with this particular script
chmod a+x MyScript.py
permissions are set to 755 (i.e. full permissions)
and put: #!usr/bin/env python at the top.
yes, that is in place
Then either:
put them in a standard place that should be on your PATH, like:
/usr/local/bin
or put the path to your scripts in your PATH -- often people use:
~/bin
I actually have this in my PATH,
/Users/pascal/Documents/Python/Dev/myapp
and with all the above I get:
Administrator:~ pascal$ python test.py
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/
Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file 'test.py': [Errno
2] No such file or directory
whereas calling the script from within it's parent directory does
work.
What could I possibly be doing wrong here?
Your PATH is only used to find the executable (python), not the
document (test.py). The document must include either the relative
path from where you are, or the absolute path.
You should be able to execute your script by typing just your script
name from anywhere, leave out "python":
Administrator:~ pascal$ test.py
in this case test.py is the 'executable', and your system will look
for it using your PATH setting.
Mike
do buy a book or surf the web for info about using the terminal on
OS-X -- it's a great skill to have.
You're right. I have recently acquired a great book called "From
Bash to Z-Shell", but it's tough to retain all the tricks when I
use the terminal so seldom.
-Chris
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