subtraction is giving me a syntax error

Mon Mar 15 14:09:29 EDT 2010

On 2010年03月15日, Philip Semanchuk <philip at semanchuk.com> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Joel Pendery 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.
[...]
>> 0x96 is the Win1252 minus sign character. Did you copy & paste this 
> code from a Web browser or a word processor?
>> Delete the character between "y_diff" and "H" and replace it with a 
> plain ASCII subtraction sign.

I think somebody needs to stop editing his code with MS Word and start
using a programming editor. ;)
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