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I am not sure if I searched for the wrong terms, but I could not find much on this subject. I am on osx and I'd like to compile a commandline python script into a small commandline app, that I can put into usr/local/bin so I can call it from anywhere. Is there a straighforward way to do that?
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You can also automatically compile all Python files using the compileall module. You can do it from the shell prompt by running compileall.py and providing the path of the directory containing the Python files to compile: monty@python:~/python$ python -m compileall .
You cannot use UNIX commands in your Python script as if they were Python code, echo name is causing a syntax error because echo is not a built-in statement or function in Python. Instead, use print name . To run UNIX commands you will need to create a subprocess that runs the command.
To start a Python interactive session, just open a command-line or terminal and then type in python , or python3 depending on your Python installation, and then hit Enter .
The simplest way to do this is to rename your file from filename.py to filename and add this line to the top of the file.
#!/usr/bin/env python
You may also need to set the executable bit on the file, which may be set using chmod +x on the command line.
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