Python "Syntaxerror: Non-Ascii Character '\Xe2' in File"

Python SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file

You've got a stray byte floating around. You can find it by running

with open("x.py") as fp:
    for i, line in enumerate(fp):
        if "\xe2" in line:
            print i, repr(line)

where you should replace "x.py" by the name of your program. You'll see the line number and the offending line(s). For example, after inserting that byte arbitrarily, I got:

4 "\xe2        lb = conn.create_load_balancer('my_lb', ['us-east-1a', 'us-east-1b'],[(80, 8080, 'http'), (443, 8443, 'tcp')])\n"

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' by just copying to another project

The string you have there has a non-ascii character √ which python can't parse. The solution is to replace it with \xe2 which will then expand to √ when the code runs. So the fixed code should look like this:

exp = u"9 \xe2 3 ="

The other solution is to tell python the string you have is actually UTF-8 by prefixing it with a u.

exp = u"9 √ 3 ="

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file but no encoding declared

From the code you've pasted, you can tell where it's going wrong when the syntax coloring gets all weird.

You're using typographical quotes in the statement

aln.append_model(mdl, align_codes=‘5ZEOA', atom_files=‘5ZEO’) 

-- that needs to be

aln.append_model(mdl, align_codes='5ZEOA', atom_files='5ZEO') 

instead.

Python SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file

You have a UTF-8 encoded U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK in your docstring:

'\n    A company manages owns one of more stores.\xe2\x80\x8e\n    '

Either remove that codepoint (and try to use a code editor, not a word processor) from your code, or just put the PEP-263 encoding comment at the top of the file:

# encoding=utf8

Python 3 uses UTF-8 by default, Python 2 defaults to ASCII for source code unless you add that comment.

Python: How to solve SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character?

You file is saved as UTF-16 with BOM (big-endian). I saved your sample code in Notepad++ with that encoding and reproduced the error:

  File "test.py", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfe' in file x.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps
/pep-0263/ for details

Make sure your file is saved in the encoding declared. You have to use an encoding compatible with ASCII for the hash bang and encoding lines to be read properly. UTF-16 is not compatible, hence the error message when it read the non-ASCII bytes of the byte order mark (BOM) character.

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file prueba.py on line 3

I guess the problem is you define to use utf8 but don't use a utf8 string. Maybe try to say print u' -------\n│ │\n│ │\n│ │\n││ │\n ------'

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