/usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: Permission denied error

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I have a Python script, myscript.py with a #!/usr/bin/python shebang* at the top and tried to execute it on Ubuntu Linux using ./myscript.py. I got the following error message:

 

bash:  ./myscript.py: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: Permission  denied

 

Here are things to check:

• The file should be executable (use chmod +x myscript.py)
• The file shoud have Unix line endings
• The file shouldn't be on a fat32 or ntfs filesystem. Apparently, bash can't handle scripts that are stored on fat32 or ntfs

* #!/usr/bin/env python would be the more portable shebang