shebang in cross platform scripts

[rbt]

Haven't tested this on Windows yet... thought I'd ask here:

Does the line below have any negative impact on Windows machines? I
develop and test mostly on Unix, but my scripts are often used on Win
systems too.

#!/usr/bin/env python

Many thanks,

rbt

 

[Simon Brunning]

Does the line below have any negative impact on Windows machines? I
develop and test mostly on Unix, but my scripts are often used on Win
systems too.

#!/usr/bin/env python

Nope. On Windows it's just a comment.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Haven't tested this on Windows yet... thought I'd ask here:

Does the line below have any negative impact on Windows machines? I
develop and test mostly on Unix, but my scripts are often used on Win
systems too.

#!/usr/bin/env python

Thanks to the # being the comment sign in python, it will be silently
discarded by windows.

 

[Bill Mill]

Haven't tested this on Windows yet... thought I'd ask here:

Does the line below have any negative impact on Windows machines? I
develop and test mostly on Unix, but my scripts are often used on Win
systems too.

#!/usr/bin/env python

What the others have said already is true, that it will be ignored on
windows, with one caveat. The shebang is interpreted by Apache if your
script is a CGI script. So, if your script is a CGI, you will need to
have a windows version and a nix version.

Peace
Bill Mill
bill.mill at gmail.com

 

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Nope. On Windows it's just a comment.

It works fine using cygwin, uwin, mks and pdksh, all available for
Windows. Google is your friend.

Symbolic links also work under uwin (don't know for sure about the
others). That means you can install a link in /usr/bin to whereever
python lives, and expect #!/usr/bin/python to work just fine.

Metta,
Ivan
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[Bill Mill]

Hi All--



It works fine using cygwin, uwin, mks and pdksh, all available for
Windows. Google is your friend.

Symbolic links also work under uwin (don't know for sure about the
others). That means you can install a link in /usr/bin to whereever
python lives, and expect #!/usr/bin/python to work just fine.

This works in cygwin as well; I didn't mention cygwin since the OP
seemed to be asking about windows distribution, but it's a good point.

Peace
Bill Mill