In article <56597268-3472-4fd9-a829-6d9cf51cf...@e7g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, Joel Pendery <joel.pend...@gmail.com> wrote: >So I am trying to write a bit of code and a simple numerical >subtraction > >y_diff = y_diff-H > >is giving me the error > >Syntaxerror: Non-ASCII character '\x96' in file on line 70, but no >encoding declared. > >Even though I have deleted some lines before it and this line is no >longer line 70, I am still getting the error every time. I have tried >to change the encoding of the file to utf-8 but to no avail, I still >am having this issue. Any ideas?
Make a hex-dump of your file. How does line 70 look? If you see 0900 66 66 96 48 0A -- ff.H. you know you are doing something illegal. > >Thanks in advance Groetjes Albert P.S. With all due respect, error messages come not any clearer than that! -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
