Thanks. I found the problem character and was able to resolve it. Lily
On 8/8/12 10:10 PM, "Dave Angel" <d...@davea.name> wrote: >On 08/08/2012 11:26 PM, Lily Tran wrote: >> Hello; >> >> >> I am getting the following error when I try to run this python program >>in eclipse. I am running python 3: >> >> >> File "/Users/lilytran/Desktop/python/Ex_Files_Python_3_EssT/Exercise >>Files/class_beginner_python/hw3_2_lab6.py", line 30 >> >> SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xd0' in file on line 30, >>but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for >>details >> >> ============================================================ >> >> >> Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong and how do I fix this >>error? Below is my program. Thanks Lily >> >> ==================================================== >> >> >> import random >> >> >> >> def MagicEightBallEmulator(): >> >> <SNIP> >> what = random.choice(answers) >> >> return print(what) >> >> >> def RunEmulator(): >> >> while True: >> >> print ('Welcome to Magic 8 Ball!') >> >> print ('Please ask your question!') >> >> question = input() >> >> if question == 'quit': >> >> break >> >> MagicEightBallEmulator() >> >> >> >> RunEmulator() >> >> > >Sending us the source without adding a comment to line #30 seems a bit >presumptuous. Double spacing by sending it as a non-text message makes >it worse. > >The error message itself seems pretty clear. You have a non-UTF8 >sequence in a source file implicitly declared as being UTF8. > >Simplest solution? Don't use non-ASCII characters. You are probably >entering some character (perhaps 0x000000D0) encoded in some other form, >and the compiler cannot decode it because it's not in UTF-8. How might >you have gotten an non-ASCII character? It might be on your keyboard, >like an o with an umlaut. Or you might have pasted it from a word >processing document or a pdf file, like a "smart quote." > >Better solution? Use a text editor that understands encodings, and set >it to always use UTF-8. > >Another solution? Figure out what encoding your editor is stuck in, and >declare that in your python file, as the second line. > >Final solutions? Use a hex viewer to search the file for that D0 >mentioned, and figure out just where in your source it is. There's no >reason to assume we could even see it here, since your message is >encoded in Windows-1252. > >-- > >DaveA > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
