[Tutor] First line of a python program

[Mark K. Zanfardino]

>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix): 

In computing, a shebang (also called a hashbang, hashpling, pound bang,
or crunchbang) refers to the characters "#!" when they are the first two
characters in a text file. In a Unix-like operating system, the program
loader takes the presence of these two characters as an indication that
the file is a script, and tries to execute that script using the
interpreter specified by the rest of the first line in the file.

Mark

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:49 -0700, Katt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Numerous times I see the following as the first line of a python program:
> 
> #! /usr/bin/python
> 
> What is this for or do for the program?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Katt
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