What browser are you using. I notice I have problems like that with some browsers and not others. On this file, Opera could not copy it correctly, but Internet Explorer did, though I had to rename the extension from .txt to .py
So i tried in firefox to ‘save as’ the page, but likewise im not getting anything but a text file. even though the extension says .py
same for chrome which i was originally using
i feel like im making some major mistake
but basically when i go onto the site and click the link i get a white page full of text, i right click and save as and get a txt file. this is the only way i have seen how to get the file onto my computer at all…
do i need python installed or something? i did have it installed but dont anymore.
Hnh. strange. Just tried it using both the right click “save link as” and the left click “save page as”. With python installed the right click offered me a save as type: Python, but I changed that to all files and added the .py manually, and it still worked.
Another way to change it (besides a simple renaming of the file extension) would be to open it in a programmers text editor( blender's own text editor works for this) and, after highlighting syntax and a quick look at indentation to be sure the line space formatting was not corrupted in the exchange ( because that's the only type of format difference between a python file and a regular text file), save it to whatever you script destination is as xxx.py rather than xxx.txt.