Optimize flag on shebang line

[Andres Corrada-Emmanuel]

Hello,

Does the optimize flag work on the shebang line of UNIX systems? I've
tried to execute a script on a Solaris system with a shebang line of the
form:

#! /usr/bin/env python -O

and it does not recognize the flag but

python -O <script> <args>

does what I expect on the command line.

Andres Corrada-Emmanuel
Senior Research Fellow
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
University of Massachusetts, Amherst