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Diffstat (limited to 'src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxShell/vboxshell.py')
| -rwxr-xr-x | src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxShell/vboxshell.py | 27 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxShell/vboxshell.py b/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxShell/vboxshell.py index bd0222c7..f1083dd1 100755 --- a/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxShell/vboxshell.py +++ b/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxShell/vboxshell.py @@ -1,7 +1,28 @@ -#!/usr/bin/env python +#!/bin/sh # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # $Id: vboxshell.py $ +# The following checks for the right (i.e. most recent) Python binary available +# and re-starts the script using that binary (like a shell wrapper). +# +# Using a shebang like "#!/bin/env python" on newer Fedora/Debian distros is banned [1] +# and also won't work on other newer distros (Ubuntu >= 23.10), as those only ship +# python3 without a python->python3 symlink anymore. +# +# Note: As Python 2 is EOL, we consider this last (and hope for the best). +# +# [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2PD5RNJRKPN2DVTNGJSBHR5RUSVZSDZI/ +''':' +for python_bin in python3 python python2 +do + type "$python_bin" > /dev/null 2>&1 && exec "$python_bin" "$0" "$@" +done +echo >&2 "ERROR: Python not found! Please install this first in order to run this program." +exit 1 +':''' + +from __future__ import print_function + """ VirtualBox Python Shell. @@ -19,8 +40,6 @@ Finally, shell allows arbitrary custom extensions, just create P.S. Our apologies for the code quality. """ -from __future__ import print_function - __copyright__ = \ """ Copyright (C) 2009-2023 Oracle and/or its affiliates. @@ -43,7 +62,7 @@ along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses>. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only """ -__version__ = "$Revision: 155244 $" +__version__ = "$Revision: 162975 $" import gc |