On 3:04 AM, Michael Vilain via Python-list wrote: I can only stress that if adding the magic encoding cookie to the fileĭoesn't fix it, we'll need to see the source code to diagnose the problem. > Any suggestions for a good open source text editor for the Mac out there? > document can no longer be saved using its original Western (ASCII) > encoding, but once I start typing, I get a message stating that the Like Latin-1, in which case you're probably using â.īut that contradicts the error message that the editor gives you: Or possibly you're actually using a Western European encoding, Macintosh encoding, I get a kind of curly quote: If I assume you're actually using the old default The character the Python interpreter is complaining about appears to be aįancy quote of some sort. Perhaps you have Smart Quotes turned on? If you type ' ' or " ", do you see If it is possible that you're *not* using UTF-8 like you thought, then are you using an emoji? That might do it. Writing in Chinese, ancient Phoenician, or similar. So if it is complaining about byte \圎2 in UTF-8, you must have aĬode point between U+10000 and U+10FFFF, which seems unlikely unless you're
The first time Python sees a non-ASCII byte, it willĬomplain. But non-ASCII characters get encoded as multi-byte sequences The way UTF-8 works is that ASCII characters are encoded as the same bytes \圎2 as the*first* non-ASCII byte in a UTF-8 document. The document was saved in UTF-8,Īre you *sure* it was UTF-8? Because I can't see likely way to get the byte > I am using TextEdit in plain text mode. That first, but just in case something more mysterious is going on, read
That might be sufficient to solve the problem. It's only needed if you include non-ASCII text in the file, as you appear
This is a "magic cookie" that tells the interpreter you are using UTF-8. Have you tried declaring an encoding? Put this in the first line of your > Synta圎rror: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in hello_world.py on line 1, but However, I keep getting this error message: I have been trying to write a simple Hello World script on my Mac at work
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