[Tutor] Creating easy-to-run files

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 09:51:05AM +0100, F Wass wrote:
> 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.
>

On unix based platforms like linux, place the following as the first line:

#!/usr/bin/env python

and the user can run it like any other executable on their system.  If you want
to make running from the python interactive interpreter easy add a start()
method to your objects:

#>>> import myclass
#>>> myclass.start()