Re: [Python-Dev] Documentation for ability to execute zipfiles &	directories On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:14:04AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> As a more helpful answer, the ZIP spec allows additional data to be 
> included in the file before the ZIP header. A more common way of using 
> this is to add a zip file on to the end of an ELF executable while still 
> using normal zipfile utilities to read the data in the zip file section 
> and ignore the executable part.
> 
> It turns out you can actually use the same trick to prepend a shebang 
> line like "/usr/bin/env python" and a newline character

   That's what I thought, too.

> - the whole zip 
> file is still a binary file, but that doesn't prevent the shell from 
> reading that first line of text and handing the file over to Python for 
> execution.

   Unix doesn't distinguish text and binary files. (-:

> The fact that this actually works was also news to me when the issue I 
> linked in my previous post was first brought to my attention :)

   So it really works? Amazing!

   Thank you!

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            otd@phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
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