In message <4c911670$0$41115$e4fe5...@news.xs4all.nl>, Hans Mulder wrote:
> The most popular way to get the latter problem is to write the script > on a Windows box and then upload it to Unix box using FTP in binary > mode (or some other transport that doesn't adjust the line endings). I always thought it was a misfeature that the Linux kernel doesn’t recognize all the common conventions for ending the shebang line. All reading of text files should be similarly tolerant. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list