The shebang is stripped from the minified python code

[blikjeham]

Some code requires a shebang (#!) to be present at the beginning of the file to instruct the program loader which python interpreter to use (e.g. "#!/usr/bin/python").
Since the shebang starts with a #, it is seen as a comment by python-minifier, and gets stripped from the minified code.

Could you add an exception to the minifier to leave the #! at the very beginning of the file alone?

[blikjeham]

This is related to #8, but I don't see any progress in that pull request for a year and a half. I had to do the following workaround to retain the shebang:

pyminify script.py > script.py.min
echo "#!/usr/bin/python" > script.py
cat script.py.min >> script.py

[dflook]

2.6.0 has been released which preserves the shebang by default.