Johan Geldenhuys wrote: > I receive this error when executing a file: > "Non-ASCII character '\x8b' in file task.py on line 1, but no encoding > declared". > > Can anybody tell me what the encoding is supposed to look like and is it > standard on all files that is trying to use Non-ASCII characters?
Python expects source files to be in ASCII unless they contain an encoding declaration. The encoding declaration is a special comment line. It must be the first or second line of the file and have the form # -*- coding: <encoding name> -*- for example # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- The current release allows iso-8859-1 characters and gives a warning as you have seen. A future release will make this an error. For full details see PEP 263: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html It's not explicit in the PEP but I assume the encoding name can be any name recognized by the Python codecs module; a list is here: http://docs.python.org/lib/standard-encodings.html Kent -- http://www.kentsjohnson.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
