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Making a shorter shebang

veracon veracon at gmail.com
Sat Oct 14 12:03:22 EDT 2006 
Actually, it appears to still be using the default binary
(/usr/bin/python). Can I be sure it's actually reading the .profile
file? I'm executing through regular CGI in Apache.

veracon wrote:
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Jerry wrote:
> > /usr/bin/env just searches your PATH variable to find it, but it does
> > so in order.  So, if you want it to find your python instead of a
> > system provided one, just alter your PATH variable and put
> > /home/my_username/python2.5 in front of everything else.
> >
> > example in .profile:
> >
> > PATH=/home/<username>/python2.5:$PATH
> > export PATH
> >
> > --
> > Jerry
> >
> > On Oct 14, 10:37 am, "veracon" <vera... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Long story short, in order to use Python 2.5, I've compiled it in my
> > > own account on my hosting. It works fantastic as
> > > /home/my_username/python2.5, but the shebang is a bit long. Is there a
> > > way to shorten it (environment variables?) or, even better, make
> > > /usr/bin/env python point to it?
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance!
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