[Tutor] wierd error in comment string

[Dave S]

Dave S wrote:

> Hi all, my python learning curve continues :-)
>
> I have a comment at the start of some experimental code ...
>      1 #!/usr/bin/env python
>      2
>      3 """
>      4 ...... blah blah
>      5 ....... blah blah
>      6
>      7 The ftse trades from 8:15 to 16:30
>      8 Expenses £8.50 per transaction + 1/2% on buying ... this equates
>      9 to 1.4% on a £2000 fund
>     10
>     11 This logger is v2 ... pulls less data to avoid being blacklisted
>     12 by the server.
>     13 """
>     14
>     15 import urllib,time,os,re
>     16
>     17 todaysdate=time.strftime('%Y%m%d')
>     18 old_ftsedata=''
>     19
>
> It appears to run OK but I get a warning message ...
>
> sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xa3' in file 
> ./ftseloggerv2.py on line 9, but no encoding declared; see 
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
>
> I looked up the web page .... got confused. I thought all characters 
> inside """...""" were ignored ?
> Anyhow I deleted line 9, same error, deleted line 9 again, same error.
>
> Can anyone tell me in simple speak what has gone wrong ? :-\
>
> Thanks Dave
>
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By a method of elimination it is the £ it does not like ....
I have to tell python to use a character set which includes a £ ?

Dave