Thank you. That works.

I used the binary in the beginning, simply because I was so new and it
seemed the simplest way forwards.

Maybe it's time to switch to the source version.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:

> If using the Windows binary, the .exe file includes the Python
> interpreter, so you don't run it using your system's installed Python.
> Instead, it would be:
>
> web2py.exe -S application -M
>
> Also, note that S and M are capitalized.
>
> Anyway, the point of the binary .exe file is for systems that do not have
> Python installed. If you have Python installed, it would be preferable to
> just use the source version of web2py -- don't bother with the .exe version.
>
> Anthony
>
>
> On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 7:14:34 AM UTC-5, Paul Ellis wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know this question has been asked before, but didn't solve the problem
>> for me.
>>
>> I am using Windows 10 and web2py binary and have replaced web2py.py with
>> web2py.exe in the command python web2py.py -s [applicaiton] -m and am
>> getting this error:
>>
>> python web2py.exe -s [application] -m
>> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file web2py.exe on line 1, but
>> no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for
>> details
>>
>> I have also tried:
>> python web2py.exe
>>
>> e:\web2py\py web2py.exe
>> this gives a traceback, but the same error:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<string>", line 6, in <module>
>>   File "__main__.py", line 126, in <module>
>>   File "__main__py__.py", line 60, in <module>
>>   File "web2py.exe", line 1
>> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file web2py.exe on line 1, but
>> no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for
>> details
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
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