[Tutor] Unicode in List Object

[Kent Johnson]

Roman Kreuzhuber wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response!
> I see! Oh I didn't realize that it's not the list which raises an error.
> For a test I tried to insert a string containing a unicode character as 
> follows:
> 
> ListObject = []
> ListObject.insert(0,u"Möälasdji")
> 
> which raises: "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfc' in file C:\python 
> proj\lists\main.py on line 48, but no encoding declared; see 
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details"

Did you look at the link? It's not the easiest reading for a newbie, I 
admit.

Python expects your source file to contain ASCII text unless you tell it 
otherwise. You can tell it what encoding to use with a special comment 
at the top of the file. Try adding
# coding=utf-8

(or whatever the appropriate coding is) to the top of your source file.

> So would this error have been raised too if this was an input from a 
> GUI-text-object?

No, this is a syntax error in your source file.

Kent