sam wrote: > Hey Diez... > > So you're saying it's as simple as creating an env var, and setting it to > the python version... > > ok.. (and yeah, we're talking fedora) >
No, env doesn't create an environment variable. It creates a modified environment. The goal here is to have the proper PATH variable set up. env is the preferred method of invoking the Python (and other) interpreter since it may not always be at /usr/bin/python. In distributions like Fedora, /usr/bin/python is usually a symlink to one of python2.5, python2.4, or python2.3 (or whatever have you), each one corresponding to the appropriate Python version. So you're just running the Python interpreter with the version number you desire directly. Without the version number, you will be using the system default. Thus the actual contents of the script running under Python 2.4 is: #!/usr/bin/env python2.4 print "Hello, World!" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
