Re: Combining --pipe and --shebang options

[Ole Tange]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Michel Samia
<michel.samia@firma.seznam.cz> wrote:
:
> Thank you very much for the new functionality.

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> Unfortunately I wasn't able
> to reproduce the expected behaviour of this script simple.py
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/parallel --shebang-wrap --pipe -k -j24 /usr/bin/python
> # should work like cat
> import sys
>
> for line in sys.stdin:
>     sys.stdout.write(line)
>
> When I run
>
>     echo 'bla' | ./simple.py
>
> sometimes it hangs and my mouse cursor changes its shape to s cross and
> sometimes it prints error messages:
>
> michel@bellatrix:/tmp$ echo bla | ./simple.py
> ./simple2.py: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `sys.stdout.write'
> ./simple2.py: line 6: `    sys.stdout.write(line)'
>
> which probably means that the script is run by bash, not by Python.

That is odd. I just tried using your exact program on two different
systems (Ubuntu and Debian) and it works for me. That leads me to
believe it is a local problem on your system.

It would be good if others could test your script, too.

On your system please try creating a new user and run the same as the
new user. Hopefully that will give you a clean environment.


/Ole