On 12 sep, 23:39, "Rhodri James" <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Now read what Steven wrote again. The issue is that the program contains > characters that are syntactically illegal. The "engine" can be perfectly > correctly translating a character as a smart quote or a non breaking space > or an e-umlaut or whatever, but that doesn't make the character legal! > Yes, you are right. I did not understand in that way. However, a small correction/precision. Illegal character do not exit. One can "only" have an ill-formed encoded code points or an illegal encoded code point representing a character/glyph. Basically, in the present case. The issue is most probably a mismatch between the coding directive and the real coding, with "no coding directive" == 'ascii'. jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
