Help: Python + Linux....Getting Started...

[David M. Cook]

In article <90cdce37.0305272117.5c43cf76 at posting.google.com>, entropy123 wrote:

> I've been using perl for about 6 weeks and am used to chmod a+x *.pl
> to get a program up and running. How do I do an equivalent task for a
> "hello world" python program?

Just make sure you have the pound-bang hack at the top of your script:

#!/usr/bin/env python

and then do as above for your python script:

chmod a+x foo.py

Dave Cook