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Re: Is this the right location to launch IDLE?

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Date 2012-03-04 20:07 -0800
Subject Re: Is this the right location to launch IDLE?
From Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.396.1330920442.3037.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 7:51 PM, John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately neither method worked. Adding "-r" to the path created this error when I tried it:
>
>>>>
> *** Error in script or command!
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:\Users\John\Documents\Python Scripts\chess_pieces.py", line 1
>    ï»¿class ChessPiece:

That would be a Notepad++ problem. That "" gibberish is what you
get when a Unicode BOM (Byte Order Mark) character is encoded as UTF-8
but decoded as ISO-8859-1 or CP-1252. A BOM is not recommended for
UTF-8 text; there should be some setting in Notepad++ to suppress it.

Cheers,
Chris

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Is this the right location to launch IDLE? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 15:07 -0800
  Re: Is this the right location to launch IDLE? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-03-04 18:53 -0800
  Re: Is this the right location to launch IDLE? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-03-04 22:33 -0500
  Re: Is this the right location to launch IDLE? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 19:51 -0800
    Re: Is this the right location to launch IDLE? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-03-04 20:07 -0800
      Re: Is this the right location to launch IDLE? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 21:00 -0800
      Re: Is this the right location to launch IDLE? John Salerno <johnjsal@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 21:00 -0800

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