PyCharm. /usr/bin/python^M: bad interpreter

woozly picture woozly · Apr 2, 2012 · Viewed 90.5k times · Source

Cannot figure out, where to change EOF in PyCharm. My scripts, started with:

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

Outputs something like this, when I try to run it like executable (chmode +x):

-bash: ./main.py: /usr/bin/python^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

What to do and how to be?

Answer

mmmmmm picture mmmmmm · Apr 2, 2012

The issue is not EOF but EOL. The shell sees a ^M as well as the end of line and thus tries to find /usr/bin/python^M .

The usual way of getting into this state is to edit the python file with a MSDOS/Windows editor and then run on Unix. The simplest fix is to run dos2unix on the file or edit the file in an editor that explicitly allows saving with Unix end of lines.