I have noticed this in a couple of scripting languages, but in this example, I am using python. In many tutorials, they would start with #!/usr/bin/python3 on the first line. I don’t understand why we have this.
- Shouldn’t the operating system know it’s a python script (obviously it’s installed since you are making a reference to it)
- What if the user is using a operating system that isn’t unix based
- The language is installed in a different folder for whatever reason
- The user has a different version. Especially when it’s not a full version number(Like Python3 vs Python32)
If anything, I could see this breaking the python script because of the listed reasons above.
