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- <span id="tut-appendix"></span><h1><span class="section-number">16. </span>Appendix<a class="headerlink" href="#appendix" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
- <section id="interactive-mode">
- <span id="tut-interac"></span><h2><span class="section-number">16.1. </span>Interactive Mode<a class="headerlink" href="#interactive-mode" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
- <section id="error-handling">
- <span id="tut-error"></span><h3><span class="section-number">16.1.1. </span>Error Handling<a class="headerlink" href="#error-handling" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p>When an error occurs, the interpreter prints an error message and a stack trace.
- In interactive mode, it then returns to the primary prompt; when input came from
- a file, it exits with a nonzero exit status after printing the stack trace.
- (Exceptions handled by an <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/compound_stmts.html#except"><code class="xref std std-keyword docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">except</span></code></a> clause in a <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/compound_stmts.html#try"><code class="xref std std-keyword docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">try</span></code></a> statement
- are not errors in this context.) Some errors are unconditionally fatal and
- cause an exit with a nonzero exit; this applies to internal inconsistencies and
- some cases of running out of memory. All error messages are written to the
- standard error stream; normal output from executed commands is written to
- standard output.</p>
- <p>Typing the interrupt character (usually <kbd class="kbd compound docutils literal notranslate"><kbd class="kbd docutils literal notranslate">Control</kbd>-<kbd class="kbd docutils literal notranslate">C</kbd></kbd> or <kbd class="kbd docutils literal notranslate">Delete</kbd>) to the primary or
- secondary prompt cancels the input and returns to the primary prompt. <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id2" id="id1">1</a>
- Typing an interrupt while a command is executing raises the
- <a class="reference internal" href="../library/exceptions.html#KeyboardInterrupt" title="KeyboardInterrupt"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KeyboardInterrupt</span></code></a> exception, which may be handled by a <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/compound_stmts.html#try"><code class="xref std std-keyword docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">try</span></code></a>
- statement.</p>
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- <section id="executable-python-scripts">
- <span id="tut-scripts"></span><h3><span class="section-number">16.1.2. </span>Executable Python Scripts<a class="headerlink" href="#executable-python-scripts" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p>On BSD’ish Unix systems, Python scripts can be made directly executable, like
- shell scripts, by putting the line</p>
- <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="ch">#!/usr/bin/env python3.5</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>(assuming that the interpreter is on the user’s <span class="target" id="index-0"></span><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PATH</span></code>) at the beginning
- of the script and giving the file an executable mode. The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">#!</span></code> must be the
- first two characters of the file. On some platforms, this first line must end
- with a Unix-style line ending (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'\n'</span></code>), not a Windows (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'\r\n'</span></code>) line
- ending. Note that the hash, or pound, character, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'#'</span></code>, is used to start a
- comment in Python.</p>
- <p>The script can be given an executable mode, or permission, using the
- <strong class="program">chmod</strong> command.</p>
- <div class="highlight-shell-session notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">$ </span>chmod<span class="w"> </span>+x<span class="w"> </span>myscript.py
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>On Windows systems, there is no notion of an “executable mode”. The Python
- installer automatically associates <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.py</span></code> files with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">python.exe</span></code> so that
- a double-click on a Python file will run it as a script. The extension can
- also be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.pyw</span></code>, in that case, the console window that normally appears is
- suppressed.</p>
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- <section id="the-interactive-startup-file">
- <span id="tut-startup"></span><h3><span class="section-number">16.1.3. </span>The Interactive Startup File<a class="headerlink" href="#the-interactive-startup-file" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p>When you use Python interactively, it is frequently handy to have some standard
- commands executed every time the interpreter is started. You can do this by
- setting an environment variable named <span class="target" id="index-1"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONSTARTUP"><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PYTHONSTARTUP</span></code></a> to the name of a
- file containing your start-up commands. This is similar to the <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.profile</span></code>
- feature of the Unix shells.</p>
- <p>This file is only read in interactive sessions, not when Python reads commands
- from a script, and not when <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">/dev/tty</span></code> is given as the explicit source of
- commands (which otherwise behaves like an interactive session). It is executed
- in the same namespace where interactive commands are executed, so that objects
- that it defines or imports can be used without qualification in the interactive
- session. You can also change the prompts <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.ps1</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sys.ps2</span></code> in this
- file.</p>
- <p>If you want to read an additional start-up file from the current directory, you
- can program this in the global start-up file using code like <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">if</span>
- <span class="pre">os.path.isfile('.pythonrc.py'):</span> <span class="pre">exec(open('.pythonrc.py').read())</span></code>.
- If you want to use the startup file in a script, you must do this explicitly
- in the script:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
- <span class="n">filename</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'PYTHONSTARTUP'</span><span class="p">)</span>
- <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">filename</span> <span class="ow">and</span> <span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">path</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isfile</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="p">):</span>
- <span class="k">with</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">fobj</span><span class="p">:</span>
- <span class="n">startup_file</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">fobj</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">()</span>
- <span class="n">exec</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">startup_file</span><span class="p">)</span>
- </pre></div>
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- </section>
- <section id="the-customization-modules">
- <span id="tut-customize"></span><h3><span class="section-number">16.1.4. </span>The Customization Modules<a class="headerlink" href="#the-customization-modules" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
- <p>Python provides two hooks to let you customize it: <span class="target" id="index-2"></span>sitecustomize and
- <span class="target" id="index-3"></span>usercustomize. To see how it works, you need first to find the location
- of your user site-packages directory. Start Python and run this code:</p>
- <div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">site</span>
- <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">site</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getusersitepackages</span><span class="p">()</span>
- <span class="go">'/home/user/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages'</span>
- </pre></div>
- </div>
- <p>Now you can create a file named <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">usercustomize.py</span></code> in that directory and
- put anything you want in it. It will affect every invocation of Python, unless
- it is started with the <a class="reference internal" href="../using/cmdline.html#cmdoption-s"><code class="xref std std-option docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-s</span></code></a> option to disable the automatic import.</p>
- <p><span class="target" id="index-4"></span>sitecustomize works in the same way, but is typically created by an
- administrator of the computer in the global site-packages directory, and is
- imported before <span class="target" id="index-5"></span>usercustomize. See the documentation of the <a class="reference internal" href="../library/site.html#module-site" title="site: Module responsible for site-specific configuration."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">site</span></code></a>
- module for more details.</p>
- <p class="rubric">Footnotes</p>
- <dl class="footnote brackets">
- <dt class="label" id="id2"><span class="brackets"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">1</a></span></dt>
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