diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 39a6f517..6525ee59 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -52,5 +52,4 @@ applications/*/*.py[oc]
 applications/examples/static/epydoc
 applications/examples/static/sphinx
 applications/admin/cron/cron.master
-
-
+HOWTO-web2py-devel
diff --git a/applications/welcome/routes.example.py b/applications/welcome/routes.example.py
index 5194cb8e..1f3b78cf 100644
--- a/applications/welcome/routes.example.py
+++ b/applications/welcome/routes.example.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 #  This is an app-specific example router
diff --git a/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/client.py b/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/client.py
index 4b05d3a8..75bca191 100755
--- a/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/client.py
+++ b/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/client.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
diff --git a/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/server.py b/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/server.py
index 12c618c4..3888b49c 100755
--- a/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/server.py
+++ b/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/server.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
diff --git a/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/simplexml.py b/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/simplexml.py
index 6b0cea5f..2a57c902 100755
--- a/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/simplexml.py
+++ b/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/simplexml.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
diff --git a/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/transport.py b/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/transport.py
index a1491334..5441e342 100644
--- a/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/transport.py
+++ b/gluon/contrib/pysimplesoap/transport.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
diff --git a/gluon/contrib/shell.py b/gluon/contrib/shell.py
index d6dedf50..e875a57a 100755
--- a/gluon/contrib/shell.py
+++ b/gluon/contrib/shell.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 #
 # Copyright 2007 Google Inc.
 #
diff --git a/gluon/contrib/simplejsonrpc.py b/gluon/contrib/simplejsonrpc.py
index 5143cea7..afdaec7d 100644
--- a/gluon/contrib/simplejsonrpc.py
+++ b/gluon/contrib/simplejsonrpc.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
diff --git a/gluon/contrib/websocket_messaging.py b/gluon/contrib/websocket_messaging.py
index dae2feb3..dcd4a35e 100644
--- a/gluon/contrib/websocket_messaging.py
+++ b/gluon/contrib/websocket_messaging.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
+#!/usr/bin/env python
 """
 This file is part of the web2py Web Framework
 Copyrighted by Massimo Di Pierro <mdipierro@cs.depaul.edu>
diff --git a/options_std.py b/options_std.py
index c531e7f3..8e0d3d6e 100644
--- a/options_std.py
+++ b/options_std.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 # when web2py is run as a windows service (web2py.py -W)
diff --git a/router.example.py b/router.example.py
index 75e3af9e..714a5a0a 100644
--- a/router.example.py
+++ b/router.example.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 #  routers are dictionaries of URL routing parameters.
diff --git a/routes.example.py b/routes.example.py
index fdcfebc6..06ac5db2 100644
--- a/routes.example.py
+++ b/routes.example.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 # default_application, default_controller, default_function
diff --git a/scripts/autoroutes.py b/scripts/autoroutes.py
index aaef82dd..cc68b490 100644
--- a/scripts/autoroutes.py
+++ b/scripts/autoroutes.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 '''
 autoroutes writes routes for you based on a simpler routing
diff --git a/scripts/extract_sqlite_models.py b/scripts/extract_sqlite_models.py
index 3f7ad2a1..b9638ede 100644
--- a/scripts/extract_sqlite_models.py
+++ b/scripts/extract_sqlite_models.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 '''