[Python-Dev] #! magic (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Sun Jan 20 18:38:28 CET 2008


On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 06:25:57PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:

-On [20080120 18:12], Oleg Broytmann (phd at phd.pp.ru) 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.

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