On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:34:58AM +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote: > Hi, > Just want to know if there is any suggested guidelines for linking > a script file in /usr/bin path. I see some of packages that installs > the python script files have a wrapper script written and installed in > /usr/bin. Is there any issue of directly linking that python script > file in /usr/bin? > I'd have to see some actual examples but for python scripts one interesting thing is that python will create and use a byte compiled form of the .py files that it uses *except* for the one specified directly to the interpreter either through the command line (python script.py) or via a shebang line. This means that many upstream python scripts in /usr/bin are very light wrappers around the real functionality in a python module located somewhere else so that more of the code gets byte compiled. -Toshio
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