duelling pythons

[Cliff Wells]

On 3 Apr 2002 08:08:18 GMT
Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> In a related matter: how common is /usr/bin/env ?
> I really like that tool to run python wherever it is: 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> As it is part of sh-utils, I guess it's pretty widely used.
> 
> Anybody know of specific environments where it is not commonly
> available?

Well, it exists on Linux and SCO Unix (which implies that it's fairly
common since SCO is next to useless [right below useless, actually]). 
However, SCO puts it in /bin, so it unless SCO is unusual in this respect
(wouldn't be a surprise - I'd actually expect it to be found in /etc or
something given their wonderful filesystem layout) it isn't much better
than specifying the path for Python directly.

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