[acastagna]

Thank you - I was using the plug-ins and had missed the part in the documentation about the adding the deploy argument in the run configuration.

I guess I shouldn't be using the plug-ins if they are not updated. I had also installed pyfrc and robotpy on two other laptops which are running Window 8, and I found that I don't get the illegal character error on those machines.

What do teams using python use when programming - Eclipse, Idle, something else?