My Python error...

[SaMTHG at googlemail.com]

On Aug 3, 9:39 pm, Erik Max Francis <m... at alcyone.com> wrote:
> SaM... at googlemail.com wrote:
> > Basically I have Mac OS X 10.4.11 and I've  got python 2.5.
> > When I go to TextEdit and type in something like
> > #!/usr/bin/env python
> > print 2+2
> > and save it as simplescript.py.
> > Then I go to terminal and cd my way to the dir that the script source
> > is in and type:
> > python simplescript.py
> > And the output is:
> > File "simplescript.py", line 1
> > SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfe' in file simplescript.py on
> > line 1, but no encoding declared; seehttp://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html
> > for details
> > What does this mean? And how do I make it work again?
>
> It probably means that your text editor is saving as UTF-16 and it's
> seeing part of a byte order marker (0xFE 0xFF or 0xFF 0xFE depending on
> endianness) -- either that or you've accidentally injected some extra
> garbage into the file.  Save as ASCII instead.
>
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Thank you I've got it to work now...I was saving the file as UTF-16
instead of UTF-8.
Now it works
Thanks