Python .elc and /etc/magic

[Martin von Loewis]

Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer at conectiva.com> writes:

> We should also have something like that for python:
> 
> 0	string/b	#!\ /bin/bash	Bourne-Again shell script text executable
> 0	string/b	#!\ /usr/local/bin/bash	Bourne-Again shell script text executable

Why is that necessary?

porthos loewis 24 ( /tmp ) > cat a.py
#! /usr/bin/python

print "Hallo, Welt!"
porthos loewis 25 ( /tmp ) > file a.py
a.py: a /usr/bin/python script text

Regards,
Martin