On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 17:22 +0100, John Abel wrote: > windozbloz wrote: > > >Bye Bye Billy Bob... > > > >Hello All, > >I'm a fairly literate windoz amateur programmer mostly in visual basic. I > >have switched to SuSE 9.2 Pro and am trying to quickly come up to speed > >with Python 2.3.4. I can run three or four line scripts from the command > >line but have not been able to execute a script from a file. > > > >I have used EMACS and JEDIT to create small test routines. I would right > >click the file and set properties to executable. I would then click the > >icon, the bouncy ball would do its thing then a dialog box would flash on > >the screen for a fraction of a second. I could tell it had a progress bar > >on it but could not catch anything else on it. Then nothing else would > >happen. > > > >If I could execute a script the world would once again be my playground... > >PLEASE HELP. > > > > > > > > > > > You will need to include > > #!/usr/bin/python > > At the top of your script. > > HTH > > J
Or, better yet: #!/usr/bin/env python ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
