Change the call to python from /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/env python so the correct python is called when using virtualenv. Remove the the call if not needed.

.gitignore

@@ -52,5 +52,4 @@ applications/*/*.py[oc]
 applications/examples/static/epydoc
 applications/examples/static/sphinx
 applications/admin/cron/cron.master
-
-
+./HOWTO-web2py-devel

applications/welcome/routes.example.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 #  This is an app-specific example router

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

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

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

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

gluon/contrib/shell.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 #
 # Copyright 2007 Google Inc.
 #

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

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>

scripts/autoroutes.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 '''
 autoroutes writes routes for you based on a simpler routing

scripts/extract_sqlite_models.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 '''