On Jan 20, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Nils Bruin wrote:
> On Jan 20, 4:30 pm, Jim Clark <jimfortheea...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Could anyone shed light on what is happening here?
>>
>> In a sage notebook cell I wish to load a python file; I wrote the command:
>>
>> load("/Users/jim/Documents/Fluid_Mechanics/AA543_HW2/physical_constants.py")
>>
>> which produces:
>>
>> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xce' in file
>> /Users/jim/Documents/Fluid_Mechanics/AA543_HW2/physical_constants.py on
>
> If you type the following in a notebook cell:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> %sh
> xxd -g1 /Users/jim/Documents/Fluid_Mechanics/AA543_HW2/
> physical_constants.py | head
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> you'll see all first few bytes in your file. It should be pretty
> straightforward to spot the "ce" from that.
>
Thank you, Nils, that revealed the problem.
The file in the path was an alias, created in Finder, and OS X added the link
info at the beginning of the file.
I replaced the OS X alias with a Unix symbolic link, and now I can load the
file.
again, thanks,
Jim
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