[Pythonmac-SIG] Yet another problem with path

[Pascal Bompard]

Returning to this 3 week old chestnut, (apologies for delay - my  
second child was born in the interim), and thanks to all who attempted  
to help, but I am still struggling with this issue.

> Christopher Barker wrote:
> If you have scripts you want to run from anywhere, make them  
> executable:

This is exactly what I need to occur with this particular script

> chmod a+x MyScript.py

permissions are set to 755 (i.e. full permissions)

> and put:  #!usr/bin/env python   at the top.

yes, that is in place

> Then either:
>
> put them in a standard place that should be on your PATH, like:
>
> /usr/local/bin
>
> or put the path to your scripts in your PATH -- often people use:
>
> ~/bin

I actually have this in my PATH,
/Users/pascal/Documents/Python/Dev/myapp

and with all the above I get:

Administrator:~ pascal$ python test.py
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/ 
Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python: can't open file 'test.py': [Errno 2]  
No such file or directory

whereas calling the script from within it's parent directory does work.

What could I possibly be doing wrong here?

> do buy a book or surf the web for info about using the terminal on  
> OS-X -- it's a great skill to have.

You're right. I have recently acquired a great book called "From Bash  
to Z-Shell", but it's tough to retain all the tricks when I use the  
terminal so seldom.



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