On 2014-04-22 22:52, Chris Angelico wrote: > I'm pretty sure the POSIX standard stipulates that a space there is > optional. Should be no difference between "#!/" and "#! /" on any > compliant OS. (But I can't right now find a citation for that, so I > may be wrong.)
I wondered this too, so went researching and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29#Magic_number which said that there was actually some contention that the space was required, but that the specs state that both with-and-without are permissible. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list