Compiler fails when template starts with blank line

[Roberto]

When the template file in http://webpy.appspot.com/ is saved with a blank line at the top, the template compiler fails.

This might be related to bug #372540 (resolved in 0.33).

% python web/template.py --compile templates

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "web/template.py", line 1414, in <module>
    compile_templates(sys.argv[2])
  File "web/template.py", line 1074, in compile_templates
    t = Template(open(path).read(), path)
  File "web/template.py", line 834, in __init__
    code = self.compile_template(text, filename)
  File "web/template.py", line 892, in compile_template
    compiled_code = compile(code, filename, 'exec')
  File "templates/index.html", line 3
    def with (notes)
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Template traceback:
    File 'templates/index.html', line 3
        <h1>Hello, world!</h1>

[Karl Castle (karl-castle)]

This is in the documentation, http://webpy.org/tutorial3.en#templating

"Currently, template.py requires the $def statement to be the first line of the file."