For quite a long time, I noticed that Distutils inserts a supplementary white line when it transforms the shebang line. There might be some reason for this white line, and I'm curious about it. This does not interact nicely with PEP 263. For example, the file:

----------------------------------------------------------------------> #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: Latin-1 -*-

"""\ [...] ----------------------------------------------------------------------<

get installed by Distutils as:

----------------------------------------------------------------------> #!/usr/bin/python

# -*- coding: Latin-1 -*-

"""\ [...] ----------------------------------------------------------------------<

and Python 2.3b1 does not see the `coding:' pragma on the third line.

This should be easy to fix in CVS. Who can do it? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

Hi François!

For quite a long time, I noticed that Distutils inserts a supplementary white line when it transforms the shebang line. There might be some reason for this white line, and I'm curious about it. This does not interact nicely with PEP 263. For example, the file: [...]

Just to satisfy your curiosity, it was a bug in the regular expression matching the first line: # check if Python is called on the first line with this expression first_line_re = re.compile('^#!.*python[0-9.]*(\s+.*)?$') The detail here is that \s also matches a newline. Fixed in CVS. Thanks for reporting! -- Gustavo Niemeyer http://niemeyer.net