Ed Leafe wrote: > On Aug 31, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Paul McNett wrote: > >> It is only for Linux. Mac/Windows don't need the line. Windows uses >> the file extension and ignores shebang. Mac needs to run with pythonw >> as you state so neither the extension nor the shebang will help >> there, but on Mac we are going to need to figure out how to properly >> package stuff to do it the "Mac Way" anyway. > > > If you change the shebang to 'pythonw', it works fine from a > terminal window. Oherwise, you need some sort of .app to associate it > with.
And on Linux, pythonw doesn't even appear to exist. I never liked shebang lines for precisely these reasons. I guess on Mac you could st an alias "python" to map to "pythonw", but that may not always be what you want.
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