[Tutor] wierd error in comment string

[Magnus Lyckå]

At 13:42 2004-04-25 +0100, Dave S wrote:
>By a method of elimination it is the £ it does not like ....

Yes, that's the only non-ASCII character in your file.

>I have to tell python to use a character set which includes a £ ?

If you use IDLE, it will tell you what to do, and even fix the
file for you if you wish. Otherwaise, add something like

# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-

or

# -*- coding: iso8859_1 -*-

as the first or second line in the file.

(This is a new inconvenience from Python 2.3. I'm happy
to see it bite English speaking people as well! ;)


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