All: I've been playing with "Lua" and found something really cool that I'm unable to do in "Python". With "Lua", a script can be compiled to byte code using "luac" and by adding "#!/usr/bin/lua" at the top of the binary, the byte code becomes a single file executable. After I found this trick, I ran back to "Python" to give it a try. Well... it didn't work. Is this possible? There are tools which insert "python" and related modules inside the byte code, but this is not the requirement for this situation. The required solution is to insert "#!/ usr/bin/python" (or some string) at the top of a *.pyc byte code file and run it as standalone executable. I'm excited about the possibility and interested in hearing your thoughts.
Thank you, Christopher Smiga -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
