[Tutor] Using £ in python

Sat Jan 1 12:05:25 CET 2005

Kent,

When I tried '\xc2' nothing happened.
I should have said that is a game using pygame.

Kent
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> > * Jacob S. <keridee at jayco.net> [041228 01:42]:
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> I am 31 married, living in London UK.
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> From: David Holland <davholla2002 at yahoo.co.uk>
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> I ran a program with a "£" sign, and I got this
> message :-
> 
> "sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character
> '\xc2'
> in file birdgame32a.py on line 93, but no encoding
> declared; see
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html
> for details'
> I looked at the message but I am not sure what
> encoding to use for "£".
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> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:42:10 +0000 (GMT)
> From: David Holland <davholla2002 at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: [Tutor] Fwd: ASCII encoding for a ? sign
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> Apologies,
> I did not see that Kent had already answered this !
> Thanks Kent I put that encoding and it works fine.
> Although surprisingly the other idea :-
> write the string with '\xc2'  did not work.
> 
>  --- David Holland <davholla2002 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:28:59 +0000 (GMT)
> > From: David Holland <davholla2002 at yahoo.co.uk>
> > Subject: ASCII encoding for a £ sign
> > To: tutor at python.org
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> > I ran a program with a "£" sign, and I got this
> > message :-
> > 
> > "sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character
> > '\xc2'
> > in file birdgame32a.py on line 93, but no encoding
> > declared; see
> > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html
> > for details'
> > I looked at the message but I am not sure what
> > encoding to use for "£".
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