Bad Interpreter

[Simon John]

RajaSriniva... at hotmail.com wrote:

> the script i have sock.py runs if i say something like :
>
> python sock.py
>
> but ./sock.py results in a :bad interpreter error
> how do i troubleshoot something like this?

sounds like you've been editting the script on a windows machine, and
it's inserted it's evil linefeeds.

on the unix machine run 'dos2unix sock.py', or load sock.py into vi and
remove the ^M characters