Interpreter problem

[rbt]

Steve Holden wrote:
> rbt wrote:
> 
>> Steve Holden wrote:
>>
>>> Greg Lindstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am using python 2.3.5 on a Linux system and have an odd problem 
>>>> dealing with the 'sha-bang' line.  I have a file, driver.py which 
>>>> starts with
>>>>
>>>> #!/usr/bin/python
>>>>
>>>> and works fine (that is, when I type in ./driver.py at the command 
>>>> prompt the file runs as expected).  I have another file, 
>>>> myotherfile.py which starts with the exact same line 
>>>> (#!/usr/bin/python) but I get
>>>>
>>>> : bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>> There's almost certainly a carriage return as well as a newline in 
>>> the shebang line.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> regards
>>>  Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> Not so. I get the same result with python 2.3 and 2.4 on Debian Linux 
>> Testing. Nothing odd at all in the shebang.
> 
> 
> What, you are telling me you've checked the file with a command like
> 
>   head driver.py | od -bc
> 
> and verified the absence of any extraneous characters?
> 
> regards
>  Steve

You're right:

rbt at athop1:~$ cd /usr/local/bin
rbt at athop1:/usr/local/bin$ head web* | od -bc
0000000 043 041 057 165 163 162 057 142 151 156 057 160 171 164 150 157
           #   !   /   u   s   r   /   b   i   n   /   p   y   t   h   o
0000020 156 015 012 144 145 146 040 167 145 142 137 142 141 143 153 165
           n  \r  \n

How can this be fixed? vim doesn't see it.