Question

I am new to Python and learning to program in it.
I wrote a basic script

my.py

#! /bin/python
print "hello world!"

but this does not execute.
I did

chmod +x my.py

and

./my.py

I have tried removing the blank space in my program

#!/bin/python

but even this gives me error

bash: ./my.py: /bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and Python is present on system.
I have checked the program by typing on terminal

So what could be the problem here?

Answer 1

The error means there is no file at the path /bin/python

Try which python to see the location of the interpreter

But why not python my.py?