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Fred Drake 2003-07-07 21:00:29 +00:00
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@ -299,13 +299,24 @@ executable, like shell scripts, by putting the line
(assuming that the interpreter is on the user's \envvar{PATH}) at the
beginning of the script and giving the file an executable mode. The
\samp{\#!} must be the first two characters of the file. Note that
\samp{\#!} must be the first two characters of the file. On some
platforms, this first line must end with a \UNIX-style line ending
(\character{\e n}), not a Mac OS (\character{\e r}) or Windows
(\character{\e r\e n}) line ending. Note that
the hash, or pound, character, \character{\#}, is used to start a
comment in Python.
The script can be given a executable mode, or permission, using the
\program{chmod} command:
\begin{verbatim}
$ chmod +x myscript.py
\end{verbatim} % $ <-- bow to font-lock
\subsection{Source Code Encoding}
It is possible to use encodings different than ASCII in Python source
It is possible to use encodings different than \ASCII{} in Python source
files. The best way to do it is to put one more special comment line
right after the \code{\#!} line to define the source file encoding: