Andre Engels wrote: > 2007/3/26, Roman Kreuzhuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Thanks for the quick response! >> I see! Oh I didn't realize that it's not the list which raises an error. >> For a test I tried to insert a string containing a unicode character as >> follows: >> >> ListObject = [] >> ListObject.insert(0,u"Möälasdji") >> >> which raises: "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfc' in file C:\python >> proj\lists\main.py on line 48, but no encoding declared; see >> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details" > > > At the top of your Python file, below the line which might be there that > reads > > #!/usr/bin/python > > but above any other line, add: > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > This tells the parser that this file should be read as unicode.
Ummm... just to be picky: it tells the parser that the file was saved (by whatever text editor you use) using the utf-8 encoding and should be converted to unicode on that basis. Obviously if you use some other encoding, such as iso-8859-1, it needs to read: # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- Roman: there are several Unicode tutorials available for Python. One recently highlighted was: http://boodebr.org/main/python/all-about-python-and-unicode and there are several listed here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Unicode TJG _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
