Hello all, i'm a linux newbie so please forgive me for silly questions.

I cannot execute any .py files, when i type for example

filename.py i get no output, just nothing happens. python is located at /usr/bin/python and i put a
#!/usr/bin/python shebang at the beginnig. I cannot execute any of them. This problem occured a few days ago and i did not make any system changes - i guess.

Before that, typing

python -V

used to give me the output:

Python 2.2.3

but now i get nothing, it simply gives no output and gets back to terminal screen for a new command.Basically it looks like as follows:

#python -V
#

I use fedora core 1 on a PIII 550 mhx cpu with 256 mb memory.
I have root access and tried everything. Please help. Thanks in advance.

Hmmm, what do you get from 'which python'? Perhaps you've accidentally created a script called python which is getting found instead of the real thing.

which python

gives me the following:

/usr/bin/python

any ideas now?

So, really nothing is happening? You get nothing from, say, python -c 'print "hello"'

If not, run

and post it. strace traces system calls and is very useful for determining what a command is doing.

Maybe he has forgotten to make the script executable?

Also, you can just run the script by using python directly.

Good news!

I tried python2.4 -V and get a version number! Also changing the shebang

from

!/usr/bin/python

to

!/usr/bin/python2.4 solved the problem. Now I have another question:

Since this is a temporary solution and some other scripts using /usr/bin/python will malfunction, how can i make python2.4 to work each time i type

#python

on the terminal?

[root@didem bin]# ls -al /usr/bin/pyth*

gives the following output:

-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Eki 12 21:47 /usr/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Eki 6 18:27 /usr/bin/python2 ->
python
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Eki 12 21:47 /usr/bin/python2.2
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 5920 Haz 21 08:00 /usr/bin/python24
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 5920 Haz 21 08:00 /usr/bin/python2.4




Any help will be appreciated, thanks inadvance!

That does not make any sense. Based on the results of your command, your sha-bang line should read: Also: Why in the world are you running scripts as root?

So /usr/bin/python is empty (zero size)?? This makes no sense. Looks like you've munged the file.

If python2.4 works, then just symlink /usr/bin/python to that (cd /usr/bin && ln -s python2.4 python).

As for python2.2, looks like you'd be better off uninstalling/reinstalling it.

And yes, you shouldn't be running as root.

Thank you all, everything is solved and yes, you're right about not running as root,

cheers

running as root is probably the reason for: