Error confusing a newbie

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Wayne Topa wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
>   I seem to have run into an error that I can't figure out.  I have
> written a python program to replace a somewhat unintelligable perl
> script I wrote about a year ago.  The python replacement (improvement)
> is 1/4 the size and I can understand it!
> 
>   The problem is that when run with #> python net_time.py  it works
> and does what I want.  But - see below.
> 
> mtntop:~# ls -l net_time.py
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          835 Dec 10 09:52 net_time.py
> 
> mtntop:~# python net_time.py
> 
> Current Totals
> 013 Hours   0 Minutes  42 Seconds
> 
> mtntop:~# net_time.py
> import: Unable to connect to X server () [No such file or directory].
> from: can't read /var/spool/mail/DateTime.
> ./net_time.py: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `open(''
> ./net_time.py: line 7: `input = open('/var/log/totalppp', 'r')'

Your shell is obviously trying to execute the script as-is
instead of calling Python to do the job. One possible explanation
for this is that there is no /usr/bin/env command installed
on your machine (could be in /bin though).

Note that 'import' is a tool to capture screen content and
write it to a file.

> Here is the script
> ---------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import string,sys
> from DateTime import *
> ...

Hope that helps,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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