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On BSD'ish Unix systems, Python scripts can be made directly executable, like shell scripts, by putting the line
#! /usr/bin/env python
(assuming that the interpreter is on the user's $PATH) at the beginning of the script and giving the file an executable mode. The "#!" must be the first two characters of the file.