Frustration debugging serial code

William R. Wing (Bill Wing) wrw at mac.com
Fri May 7 21:38:33 EDT 2010


On May 7, 2010, at 4:12 PM, J. Cliff Dyer wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 15:36 -0400, William R. Wing wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Maybe I should have been more explicit.  The first line in the Python
>> file is:
>> 
>> 
>> #!/usr/bin/env Python (alternatively #!/usr/bin/Python - same results
>> either way).
>> 
> 
> python should be lowercased when referring to the name of the
> executable.  Unix filesystems are, of course, case sensitive.
> 

Cliff, 
 True, although on a Mac the case is ignored.  But you're right, best practice would make it lower case.
However, I've tried it both ways with the same results.   

But thanks.  Still frustrated,
Bill
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