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 >> > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/web2py/T1OH6haDHHM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

