[Python-Dev] Reading Python source file (original) (raw)

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Mon Nov 16 23:09:51 EST 2015


MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:

As I understand it, *nix expects the shebang to be b'#!', which means that the first line should be ASCII-compatible (it's possible that the UTF-8 BOM might be present).

The UTF-8 BOM interferes with it on Mac OSX and Linux, at least.



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