Re: [gentoo-user] bash stopped running python scripts...

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 03 August 2009 22:56:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
> I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts,
> which of course is playing havoc with portage.  Bash no longer wants to
> execute the scripts with python as the interpreter, but insists on
> executing them as bash scripts.  Python itself is still functioning
> properly, when invoked directly.   Since I happen to have ImageMagick on
> this machine, the result is this:
>
> kutulu@apollo ~ $ cat test.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import sys
> print "Python Ok."
> kutulu@apollo ~ $ ./test.py
> X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> ./test.py: line 3: print: command not found
> kutulu@apollo ~ $ python ./test.py
> Python Ok.
> kutulu@apollo ~ $
>
> Perl and Tcl both still work as expected, and by invoking python
> directly I can still get portage to merge things.  For example:
>
> root@apollo ~ $ python -O /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild
> /usr/portage/dev-lang/python/python-2.6.2-r1.ebuild install
>
> will re-merge python successfully, which I have now done for both python
> and bash, to no effect.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --Mike

Did you recently merge python-3 and were so foolish as to make it the 
default?

What is /usr/bin/python? and what version is it (-V)?

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