Yesterday, for reasons best left unstated, I invented a technique for combining #bash and #Python into a single file.

The motivation was to have something a bit more powerful than the #! to decide which installed Python to use.

The magic is in line two:

#!/bin/bash
""""true"
# bash sees this, python ignores it
if [ -e /path/to/file ]; then
exec python3 "$0" "$@"
else
echo "OMG, something is missing"
exit 1
fi
"""
# begin python fun!
from thing import python_stuff
python_stuff()

“The errors and obfuscations underlying DOGE’s claims of savings are well documented. Less known are the costs Mr. Musk incurred by taking what Mr. Trump called a ‘hatchet’ to government and the resulting firings, agency lockouts and building seizures that mostly wound up in court.

The Partnership for Public Service [produced] a rough estimate that firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/politics/musk-cuts.html

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