newbie trouble with #!

[Harald Kirsch]

"Bernd Prager" <vze2nbmq at verizon.net> writes:
> [root:/etc/ipcheck]# ./ipcheck.py
> bash: ./ipcheck.py: No such file or directory
> 
> -- snip -----------
> 
> When I type /usr/bin/python ipcheck.py everything works fine.
> I'm using Python 1.5.2. Does anybody have an idea what that could be.
> (I was already checking if I got some weird character within the first line:
> I didn't!)

Well, but in fact this is the exact behaviour I get if the first line,
has a trailing ^M on a Unix machine. Don't believe your editor or
`more' or `less' or `cat'. Recent versions try to be clever and hide a
^M at the end of the line.

  Harald Kirsch

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