Why do people write #!/usr/bin/env python on the first line of a Python script?

I see this at the top of Python files:

  1. For Python 2 files#!/usr/bin/env python
  2. For Python 3 files#!/usr/bin/env python3

It seems to me like the files run the same without that line.

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