On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 09:34:58AM +0530, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:

Hi, Just want to know if there is any suggested guidelines for linking a script file in /usr/bin path. I see some of packages that installs the python script files have a wrapper script written and installed in /usr/bin. Is there any issue of directly linking that python script file in /usr/bin?

I'd have to see some actual examples but for python scripts one interesting thing is that python will create and use a byte compiled form of the .py files that it uses *except* for the one specified directly to the interpreter either through the command line (python script.py) or via a shebang line. This means that many upstream python scripts in /usr/bin are very light wrappers around the real functionality in a python module located somewhere else so that more of the code gets byte compiled.

-Toshio