Failing to execute python script from the Windows CMD

[Zeke Schmois]

I'm sure I'm missing something very fundamental here but whenever I try to run my script on the windows command line I get 

>python web2py.exe -S myApp - M -R applications/myApp/scripts/myAppScript.py

  File "web2py.exe", line 1

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x90' in file web2py.exe on line 1, but no enc

oding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

If I use web2py.py it breaks because there's no such file in my web2py folder.

I'm out of ideas as how to execute it, any pointers?

[Anthony]

If you have Python installed on your system, then download and unzip the source version of web2py, not the Windows binary version. In that case, you'll start it with python web2py.py.

Anthony

[Massimo Di Pierro]

If you use the binary distribution you do not need "python" and you should call web2py with:

> web2py.exe -S myApp - M -R applications/myApp/scripts/myAppScript.py

but since you have python installed, you should follow Anthony's advice and run web2py form source.