duelling pythons

[Michael Hudson]

Andy Gimblett <gimbo at ftech.net> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 09:40:45PM +0000, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > Tobias Klausmann <klausman-un030402 at tuts.net> writes:
> > 
> > > So far, I've only written libraries/modules (no shebang) or console
> > > apps that are at least semi-interactive. But if I'd write some such
> > > utility that might run cronned, I'd surely stumble across the system
> > > where cron doesn't know about /usr/local/bin/python15 =)
> > 
> > The distutils can help here.
> 
> How can distutils help with the problem of what to put on the first
> line of my scripts?

Because if you go

python setup.py install_scripts

said scripts get their first lines munged to point to the python used
to install them.

Cheers,
M.

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