On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:43 pm Stefan Behnel wrote:
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with the above code, but if it's
the code that fails for you with the exception you posted, I would guess
that the problem is in the "[more stuff here]" part, which likely contains
a non-ASCII character. Note that you didn't declare the source file
encoding above. Do as Gary told you.
Even with a source code encoding, you will probably have problems with
source files including \xe2 and other "bad" chars. Unless they happen to
fall inside a quoted string literal, I would expect to get a SyntaxError.
I have come across this myself. While I haven't really investigated in great
detail, it appears to happen when copying and pasting code from a document
(usually HTML) which uses non-breaking spaces instead of \x20 space
characters. All it takes is just one to screw things up.
For me, more common than non-breaking space is the "smart quotes"
characters. In that case, one probably doesn't want to delete them, but
instead convert them into standard quotes.
DaveA
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