[Pyobjc-dev] hashbang in applets

[Jack J. <Jac...@or...>]

On vrijdag, maa 21, 2003, at 21:12 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren 
wrote:
> P.S. bundlebuilder.py from the current Python CVS doesn't work for me, 
> I get #!python2.3 at the start of the bootstrap script. That's 
> probably because 'which python' is  '/usr/local/bin/python' and that 
> is a symlink to 'python2.3' in the same directory.  This fragment of 
> code doesn't work correctly with that:
>   hashbang = sys.executable
>   while os.path.islink(hashbang):
>      hashbang = os.readlink(hashbang)
>
> The second time through the loop hashbang is 'python2.3', which 
> doesn't exist. The assignment should probably be something like 
> 'os.path.join(os.dirname(hashbang), os.readlink(hashbang))'

Don't use this construct, use os.path.realpath(sys.executable). It 
follows recursive symlinks and understands about relative symlinks too.
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