Python Scripts
Let's start out with the Python interpreter. On a Red Hat 8.0 Linux installation, the interpreter is located in /usr/bin/. You reach the interpreter from the Bash shell: [George@localhost bin]$ python2.2 From here, you can try commands from Guido's tutorial and get instant feedback on errors. For a more recent Linux distribution (Novell Desktop), the Python interpreter is at python2.3 Python scripts require a bit more work. Vikram Vaswani's illustrative script eyes.py looks like this on my Linux computer: #!/usr/bin/python2.3 print "Snake Eyes" Executable privileges were set by $ chmod +x eyes.py Using Novell Linux, the script was executed from bash: $ /usr/bin/python2.3 eyes.py June 29, 2005