My Python error...

[SaMTHG]

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; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html
for details
What does this mean? And how do I make it work again?
Thanks for reading
SaMTHG

 

[SaMTHG]

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