[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-768391 ] hardcoded python paths

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Bugs item #768391, was opened at 2003-07-09 06:39
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Category: IDLE
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tiago Castro Henriques (tiagoh)
>Assigned to: Jack Jansen (jackjansen)
Summary: hardcoded python paths

Initial Comment:
I tried to use the new version of idle that is now

integrated into 2.3b2, but I got an error when I tried

to run /usr/local/lib/python2.3/idlelib/idle:



% /usr/local/lib/python2.3/idlelib/idle

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "./idle", line 8, in ?

    import PyShell

  File "./PyShell.py", line 19, in ?

    from Tkinter import *

  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 35,

in ?

    import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not

be configured for Tk

ImportError: No module named _tkinter



I'm using python2.3b2 on MacOSX 10.2.6, compiled from

source with standard options.



Apparently the builtin 2.2 version of Python is being

used, even though $PYTHONHOME is not set (according to

the manpages, this should make it default to

/usr/local, and not /usr as seems to be the case).



This is due to the fact that this executable script

contains a shebang declaration with a hardcoded python

path:



% head -1 /usr/local/lib/python2.3/idlelib/idle

#!/usr/bin/python



This should be replaced by the standard shebang

declaration:

#! /usr/bin/env python



I checked to see if there were any other *.py files in

/usr/local/lib/python2.3 suffering from similar

problems, and found the following files to be affected:



/usr/local/lib/python2.3/cgi.py:

#! /usr/local/bin/python

/usr/local/lib/python2.3/test/test_bz2.py:

#!/usr/bin/python

/usr/local/lib/python2.3/test/test_largefile.py:

#!python

/usr/local/lib/python2.3/test/test_optparse.py:

#!/usr/bin/python



The files /usr/local/bin/idle, /usr/local/bin/pydoc and

/usr/local/bin/pycolor also have a hardcoded python path:

% head -1 idle pycolor pydoc

==> idle <==

#!/usr/local/bin/python



==> pycolor <==

#!/usr/local/bin/python



==> pydoc <==

#!/usr/local/bin/python



These should similarly be changed to #! /usr/bin/env python



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>Comment By: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk)
Date: 2003-09-09 22:11

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Refer to Python Bug 775061 (closed)



idlelib/idle  script has been removed since the

idle script is now in Tools/scripts and at least

the Linux installation is setting the shebang correctly.



Also, the shebang has been removed from idlelib/idle.py.



I don't know how OSX handles the script installation

so I'm referring this to Jack Jansen in case there is

a further problem.  How does IDLE start on OSX 

these days?  Is there any problem backporting the

deletions to 2.3 maint?

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