[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basically I have Mac OS X 10.4.11 and I've got python 2.5. When I go to TextEdit and type in something like #!/usr/bin/env python print 2+2 and save it as simplescript.py. Then I go to terminal and cd my way to the dir that the script source is in and type: python simplescript.py And the output is: File "simplescript.py", line 1 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfe' in file simplescript.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details What does this mean? And how do I make it work again?
It probably means that your text editor is saving as UTF-16 and it's seeing part of a byte order marker (0xFE 0xFF or 0xFF 0xFE depending on endianness) -- either that or you've accidentally injected some extra garbage into the file. Save as ASCII instead.
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