Re: [Plplot-devel] plplot_python_start.py: executable-not-elf-or-script

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> This is for the PLplot Python wizards:
>
> Lintian, the Debian package checker is complaining that the installed
> plplot_python_start.py is "executable-not-elf-or-script". I see two ways of
> fixing this:
>
> 1) Moving plplot_python_start.py form examples_python_SCRIPTS to
>    examples_python_DATA in examples/python/Makefile.am
>
> 2) Adding "#/usr/bin/env python" at the beginning of plplot_python_start.py.
>
> I am going to implement one of these.  Which do you prefer?

Use (1).  plplot_python_start.py is not a standalone script.  Instead, it is
a python module that you import just like xw??.py.

Alan, "python wizard in training"....;-)

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