How to handle errors?

John Gordon gordon at panix.com
Sat Oct 22 11:01:46 EDT 2016


In <D42dnWsQ_pa11pfFnZ2dnUU7-bednZ2d at giganews.com> Wildman <best_lay at yahoo.com> writes:

> > Another serious problem with using env in the hash-bang line is that you
> > cannot pass commandline options to the Python executable.

> Not true.  I made a test script with this code:

> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import sys
> print sys.argv

> Then I ran it:

> ~$ python test.py argument1 argument2
> ['test.py', 'argument1', 'argument2']

Options cannot be passed *on the hash-bang line*.

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