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Sudden error: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file

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First post2011-03-30 07:34 -0700
Last post2011-03-30 22:36 -0400
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  Sudden error: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 07:34 -0700
    Re: Sudden error: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-03-30 10:52 -0400
      Re: Sudden error: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-03-30 17:30 +0200
    Re: Sudden error: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-03-30 17:28 +0200
      Re: Sudden error: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> - 2011-03-30 16:58 -0700
        Re: Sudden error: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-03-30 22:36 -0400

#2232 — Sudden error: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file

FromGnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com>
Date2011-03-30 07:34 -0700
SubjectSudden error: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file
Message-ID<f87a430c-2385-4731-9dfb-ecdfb07af0e5@i35g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
RSS script runs fine on my dev machine but errors on the server
machine. Script was last run 3 days ago with no problem. Possible
clue: dev machine is (Mac OSX) running Python 3.1.1 while server is
running Python 3.1.3. I have not updated anything that should suddenly
cause this error starting yesterday.

The error originates at '·' which string contains a &middot;
character.

Complete error message is:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file /Library/WebServer/
Sites/Sectrum/Site/Feed.py on line 17, but no encoding declared; see
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

Any help how to fix this and why it suddenly started erroring 2 days
ago...

-- Gnarlie

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#2234

FromBenjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu>
Date2011-03-30 10:52 -0400
Message-ID<mailman.14.1301496819.2990.python-list@python.org>
In reply to#2232
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com> wrote:
> RSS script runs fine on my dev machine but errors on the server
> machine. Script was last run 3 days ago with no problem. Possible
> clue: dev machine is (Mac OSX) running Python 3.1.1 while server is
> running Python 3.1.3. I have not updated anything that should suddenly
> cause this error starting yesterday.
>
> The error originates at '·' which string contains a &middot;
> character.
>
> Complete error message is:
>
> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file /Library/WebServer/
> Sites/Sectrum/Site/Feed.py on line 17, but no encoding declared; see
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
>
> Any help how to fix this and why it suddenly started erroring 2 days
> ago...
>
> -- Gnarlie

You don't have a &middot character. Your computer doesn't understand
"characters". You have the byte sequence \xc2\xb7. When you have a
Unicode string (the default in Python 3), Python needs some way of
converting the byte sequence to a character sequence. The way it does
that is through the encoding. But you don't have an encoding
specified, so rather than guess, Python is falling back on the lowest
common denominator: ASCII, which doesn't understand the byte \xc2-
hence the error.

To fix this, just put the line
# coding=utf-8
at the very top of the code file.

> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

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#2236

FromPeter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Date2011-03-30 17:30 +0200
Message-ID<imvibb$d45$01$2@news.t-online.com>
In reply to#2234
Benjamin Kaplan wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> RSS script runs fine on my dev machine but errors on the server
>> machine. Script was last run 3 days ago with no problem. Possible
>> clue: dev machine is (Mac OSX) running Python 3.1.1 while server is
>> running Python 3.1.3. I have not updated anything that should suddenly
>> cause this error starting yesterday.
>>
>> The error originates at '·' which string contains a &middot;
>> character.
>>
>> Complete error message is:
>>
>> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file /Library/WebServer/
>> Sites/Sectrum/Site/Feed.py on line 17, but no encoding declared; see
>> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
>>
>> Any help how to fix this and why it suddenly started erroring 2 days
>> ago...
>>
>> -- Gnarlie
> 
> You don't have a &middot character. Your computer doesn't understand
> "characters". You have the byte sequence \xc2\xb7. When you have a
> Unicode string (the default in Python 3), Python needs some way of
> converting the byte sequence to a character sequence. The way it does
> that is through the encoding. But you don't have an encoding
> specified, so rather than guess, Python is falling back on the lowest
> common denominator: ASCII, which doesn't understand the byte \xc2-
> hence the error.
> 
> To fix this, just put the line
> # coding=utf-8
> at the very top of the code file.

All good advice except that Python 3 defaults to UTF-8 not ASCII as its 
source encoding.

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#2235

FromPeter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Date2011-03-30 17:28 +0200
Message-ID<imvi69$d45$01$1@news.t-online.com>
In reply to#2232
Gnarlodious wrote:

> RSS script runs fine on my dev machine but errors on the server
> machine. Script was last run 3 days ago with no problem. Possible
> clue: dev machine is (Mac OSX) running Python 3.1.1 while server is
> running Python 3.1.3. I have not updated anything that should suddenly
> cause this error starting yesterday.
> 
> The error originates at '·' which string contains a &middot;
> character.
> 
> Complete error message is:
> 
> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file /Library/WebServer/
> Sites/Sectrum/Site/Feed.py on line 17, but no encoding declared; see
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
> 
> Any help how to fix this and why it suddenly started erroring 2 days
> ago...

You are trying to run your 3.x code with Python 2.x...

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#2254

FromGnarlodious <gnarlodious@gmail.com>
Date2011-03-30 16:58 -0700
Message-ID<2851a17f-cac9-43a5-bbf4-dcb2e22520ad@o15g2000prn.googlegroups.com>
In reply to#2235
On Mar 30, 9:28 am, Peter Otten wrote:

> You are trying to run your 3.x code with Python 2.x...

You're right. Exactly why this started happening I don't know.

Thanks.

-- Gnarlie

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#2267

FromTerry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Date2011-03-30 22:36 -0400
Message-ID<mailman.24.1301539016.2990.python-list@python.org>
In reply to#2254
On 3/30/2011 7:58 PM, Gnarlodious wrote:
> On Mar 30, 9:28 am, Peter Otten wrote:
>
>> You are trying to run your 3.x code with Python 2.x...
>
> You're right. Exactly why this started happening I don't know.

I believe recent Mac OSX comes with some 2.x installed as the default 
Python.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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