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Python "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file" [duplicate]
I am writing some python code and I am receiving the error message as in the title, from searching this has to do with the character set.
Here is the line that causes the error
hc = HealthCheck("...
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Working with UTF-8 encoding in Python source [duplicate]
Consider:
$ cat bla.py
u = unicode('d…')
s = u.encode('utf-8')
print s
$ python bla.py
File "bla.py", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file bla.py on line 1, but no encoding ...
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SyntaxError of Non-ASCII character [duplicate]
I am trying to parse xml which contains the some non ASCII cheracter,
the code looks like below
from lxml import etree
from lxml import objectify
content = u'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?...
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Declaring encoding in Python [duplicate]
I want to split a string in python using this code:
means="a ، b ، c"
lst=means.split("،")
but I get this error message:
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xd8' in file dict.py on line 2, but no ...
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What's the difference between 'coding=utf8' and '-*- coding: utf-8 -*-'? [duplicate]
Is there any difference between using
#coding=utf8
and
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
What about
# encoding: utf-8
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SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character but no encoding declared [duplicate]
I am suppose to change some of these characters in English to Chinese in this setting.py file but then error happened.
I know that it's saying because no encoding is declared in the error message but ...
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Special chars in Python [duplicate]
i have to use special chars in my python-application.
For example: ƃ
I have information like this:
U+0183 LATIN SMALL LETTER B WITH TOPBAR
General Character Properties
In Unicode since: 1.1
Unicode ...
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SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x92' in file D:\AIAssistant\build\gui.py on line 92, but no encoding declared; [duplicate]
So I'm running a python GUI script, but it gives me the following error:
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x92' in file D:\AIAssistant\build\gui.py on line 92, but no encoding declared; see ...
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SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x82' [duplicate]
I get this error in Eclipse while working on "Byte of Python"
It says the error shows up in 2 lines:
source = ["C:\\My Documents", "C:\\Code"]
and
zip_command = "zip -qr {0} {1}".format(target, ‚ ‚....
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Python SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 [duplicate]
I converted my Python script to a Mac.app (via py2app). I try to run it and get the following error:
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xcf' in file
py2app/dist/myapp.app/Contents/MacOS/...
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Why do I get a SyntaxError that says "Non-UTF-8 code starting with..."? [duplicate]
I have a script which uses open() to create multiple files.
All files are created successfully and it seems that there are no problems,
but when attempting to run res.py, it crashes displaying ...
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Which file encodings are supported for Python 3 source files? [duplicate]
Before you go telling me to read PEP 0263, keep reading...
I can't find any documentation that details which file encodings are supported for Python 3 source files.
I've found hundreds (thousands?) ...
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Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xff' when when running setup.py [duplicate]
I'm following Python's Packaging Projects tutorial and when it tells to run python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel I receive the following error:
PS C:\Users\username\dev\packaging_tutorial> python ...
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How to fix "SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 0: invalid continuation byte" [duplicate]
I'm using visual studio code as my IDE for python. However, every time I want to print something in Mandarin, it keep showing me this error "SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf-8' codec can't decode ...
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SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file, but no encoding declared in Python 2.7 [duplicate]
I'm working on a sentiment analysis program, it was working properly on a windows (python 3.4) but when I switched to a mac os (python 2.7) it gave me this error when i ran it:
SyntaxError: Non-...
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