R: [Tutor] Creating easy-to-run files

[Marcel Preda]

> Hi,
> 
Hi
> I've just started using Python (and found it quite useful) for 
> writing a conversion parser between two different formats. 
> Is there an easy way of letting the user run the script by 
> simply typing "start" or something similar at the Python prompt?
> I'm currently using Windows, but it's intended to be run under
> Linux.
> 

From comand [or shell] prompt, type :

python script_name



For linux only:
In the script the first line must be:
#!/path_to/python

And you may call just like:
script_name 

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