Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: I would like to add my +1 to Eric's msg120485 above. What I really find puzzling is why some scripts in Tools/ have hashbangs, but don't have execute permission. Tools/scripts/cleanfuture.py Tools/scripts/combinerefs.py Tools/scripts/db2pickle.py Tools/scripts/find_recursionlimit.py Tools/scripts/md5sum.py Tools/scripts/pickle2db.py Tools/scripts/pysource.py Tools/scripts/svneol.py I suggest a simple rule: no execute bit set in permissions - no hashbang line. And I don't think stdlib modules should have execute bit: -rwxr-xr-x Lib/base64.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/cProfile.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/cgi.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/keyword.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/pdb.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/platform.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/profile.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/pydoc.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/quopri.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/smtpd.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/smtplib.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/symbol.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/tabnanny.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/token.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/uu.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/test/pystone.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/test/re_tests.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/test/regrtest.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/test/test_array.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/test/test_binhex.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/test/test_dbm_gnu.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/test/test_dbm_ndbm.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/test/test_errno.py -rwxr-xr-x Lib/test/test_userstring.py ---------- nosy: +belopolsky _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10318> _______________________________________