Python script not executing after setting executable permission

Question

i am having a python script

#!/usr/bin/env python

in top of my script? following is the permission i had set

-rwxr-xr-x 1 user1 user2 6423 Nov 15 15:12 test

i tried executing the script as user1 ./test its giving me permission denied?

when i do

whoami it shows user1 and umask is 0022, user1 has bash as his default shell

$python test (it works fine)

Any ideas??

Answer 1

I remember an issue like that because I had a test.pyc in the same directory, and interpreter was using it instead of the original interpreted one (test.py). Maybe it's a lead for you.

Answer 2

When you mention #!/usr/bin/env python in first line, it looks for python from $PATH.

Type which python and check whether the path from the output is added to $PATH. If not add it.

• export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/python"

For more information about setting the PATH variable refer this page

Answer 3

I never ever use names as test as my scriptname. Likewise for simple names as time, date, parser, etc unless in a package with absolute imports, and even then it's bad practice. These names are too likely to interfere with either installed modules or other scripts/packages in your working directory and/or path.

Conclusion: check if you don't have a folder called test in the same directory.