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diff --git a/Doc/tut.tex b/Doc/tut.tex index 4291595..0afcb3f 100644 --- a/Doc/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut.tex @@ -295,12 +295,12 @@ On BSD'ish \UNIX{} systems, Python scripts can be made directly executable, like shell scripts, by putting the line \bcode\begin{verbatim} -#! /usr/local/bin/python +#! /usr/bin/env python \end{verbatim}\ecode % -(assuming that's the name of the interpreter) at the beginning of the -script and giving the file an executable mode. The {\tt \#!} must be -the first two characters of the file. +(assuming that the interpreter is on the user's PATH) at the beginning +of the script and giving the file an executable mode. The {\tt \#!} +must be the first two characters of the file. \subsection{The Interactive Startup File} @@ -2243,7 +2243,7 @@ complicated. Rather than have users be constantly writing and debugging code to save complicated data types, Python provides a standard module called -\code{pickle}. code{pickle} is an amazing module that can take almost +\code{pickle}. This is an amazing module that can take almost any Python object (even some forms of Python code!), and convert it to a string representation; this process is called \dfn{pickling}. Reconstructing the object from the string representation is called diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex index 4291595..0afcb3f 100644 --- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex @@ -295,12 +295,12 @@ On BSD'ish \UNIX{} systems, Python scripts can be made directly executable, like shell scripts, by putting the line \bcode\begin{verbatim} -#! /usr/local/bin/python +#! /usr/bin/env python \end{verbatim}\ecode % -(assuming that's the name of the interpreter) at the beginning of the -script and giving the file an executable mode. The {\tt \#!} must be -the first two characters of the file. +(assuming that the interpreter is on the user's PATH) at the beginning +of the script and giving the file an executable mode. The {\tt \#!} +must be the first two characters of the file. \subsection{The Interactive Startup File} @@ -2243,7 +2243,7 @@ complicated. Rather than have users be constantly writing and debugging code to save complicated data types, Python provides a standard module called -\code{pickle}. code{pickle} is an amazing module that can take almost +\code{pickle}. This is an amazing module that can take almost any Python object (even some forms of Python code!), and convert it to a string representation; this process is called \dfn{pickling}. Reconstructing the object from the string representation is called |