> That would be a Notepad++ problem. That "" gibberish is what you > get when a Unicode BOM (Byte Order Mark) character is encoded as UTF-8 > but decoded as ISO-8859-1 or CP-1252. A BOM is not recommended for > UTF-8 text; there should be some setting in Notepad++ to suppress it.
You are my new hero! :) It works perfectly now! I set the default for files to be UTF-8 without BOM, and I also checked the option that said "Apply to opened ANSI files." Is that okay? Thank you!!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list