> I tend to use the shebang #!/usr/bin/env python in my scripts so far > but I imagine that having that would not work on say windows. Or is > there some kind of file extension association for people running > windows instead of the shebang?
The shebang is ignored in Windows (as far as I know). There is are .py, .pyc, .pyo and .pyw associations added to the registry when you install Python on a Windows machine. They can be executed like any other program. > I saw on the python site a slide from 1999 that said that python was > slower then java but faster to develop with is python still slower > then java? I don't have any numbers, but yes it probably is a bit slower for some tasks. Especially for hardcore number crunching. Of course, you can always rewrite the slow bits in C and get a speedup. Also, there are optimizers that are supposed to work pretty well. In the end though, Python is fast enough for most tasks. For very heavy computation I wouldn't use Java either. The interpreter does seem to start much quicker than the JVM. Also, I'm sure it has been mentioned, but you might checkout Jython, which is essentially python written in Java. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
