On 13 Apr 2007 10:54:18 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:24:12 +0200, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Chris Lasher a écrit : >>> Should a Python module not intended to be executed have shebang/ >>> hashbang (e.g., "#!/usr/bin/env python") or not? >> >> The shebang is only useful for files that you want to make directly >> executable on a *n*x system. They are useless on Windows, > > Probably (unless setup.py uses them for something meaningful there, > too).
There's another, secondary, reason to use a shebang on Python source which isn't executable: the Unix file(1) command and friends can see that it's Python code. (Of course, such files will almost always be named foo.py.) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
