Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio with alternate python

[Catalin Patulea]

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Josh Blum <address@hidden> wrote:
> Somehow distutils solves this problem:
> http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/dist/node11.html
> If you figure out what its calling, perhaps we could port that the
> gnuradio build system
The code that does this can be seen here:
http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/distutils/command/build_scripts.py?revision=77704&view=markup

They use the following regexp:
^#!.*python[0-9.]*([ \t].*)?$

This handles both things like /usr/bin/env python and
/usr/local/bin/python, which is nice in the general case but not
particularly relevant for GR. They also restrict the match to the
first line of the file, which I think is prudent.

One thing about the @@PYTHON@@ option is it would make the scripts no
longer executable directly from the tree. Arguably you could still
execute them using "python <script>" so you wouldn't lose that much,
but it's something to consider.