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diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex index d78b112..d38534b 100644 --- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex @@ -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: |