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Fri Apr 6 19:06:52 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/070266.html

Thanks to all who responded.  There are some good ideas here that jarred me
back into the UNIX world where nearly anything is possible if you just think
about it a bit.

Regards,
DLH

"David Humphrey" <dhumphrey at pdqdot.net> wrote in message
news:69AD80E50414598C.875157435733CF34.B50964BA627F4825 at lp.airnews.net...
> I'm sure this one has been answered before, but I couldn't find the
solution
> in any of the newgroups, so here goes again.
>
> I can run bash scripts that are in the path but not python scripts.  Each
> script has the appropriate (I think) #! declaration on the first line.
> Here's a short record of my tests:
>
> $ pwd
> /home/administrator
>
> $ echo $PATH
>
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/c
>
ygdrive/c/BGIUtils:/cygdrive/d/Utils/Python20/:/cygdrive/d/Utils/ULTRAE~1:/c
> ygdrive/d/Utils/Perl/bin/:/cygdrive/d/dlh/bin:.
>
> $ ls -al /usr/local/bin
> total 1
> drwxr-xr-x   2 administ None            0 Jan 10 16:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x   5 administ None            0 Jan 10 16:01 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 administ None           59 Apr  5 11:35 test.sh
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 administ None           77 Apr  5 11:34 test1.py
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 administ None           92 Apr  5 11:39 test2.py
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/test.sh
> #!/usr/bin/bash
> echo "Hello, World (from the bash script)"
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/test1.py
> #!d:/Utils/python20/python.exe
> print "Hello, World (from the python script)"
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/test2.py
> #!/cygdrive/d/Utils/python20/python.exe
> print "Hello, World (from the python test2 script)"
>
> $ test.sh
> Hello, World (from the bash script)
>
> $ test1.py
> d:\Utils\python20\python.exe: can't open file '/usr/local/bin/test1.py'
>
> $ test2.py
> d:\Utils\python20\python.exe: can't open file '/usr/local/bin/test2.py'
>
> $
>
>
> From this, I infer that cygwin bash understands the #! notation properly,
so
> I must have a problem with paths or some other configuration parameter.
> Also, I've run these same tests with c:\ instead of /cygdrive/c and d:\
> instead of /cygdrive/d.
>
> Has someone out there been successful doing this?
>
> Configuration details:
>
> Windows NT 4.0
> GNU bash, version 2.04.5(12)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
> ActiveState Python 2.0.3
>
> Regards,
> David L. Humphrey
> Manager, Software Development
> Bell Geospace, Inc
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