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Working with UTF-8 encoding in Python source [duplicate]

Consider:

$ cat bla.py 
u = unicode('d...')
s = u.encode('utf-8')
print s
$ python bla.py 
 File "bla.py", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file bla.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

How can I declare UTF-8 strings in source code?

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    now it gives """UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)""" Commented Jun 9, 2011 at 7:36
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    You need not use unicode(), simply write string in UTF-8 encoding. Commented Jun 9, 2011 at 8:03
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    In Python versions older than 3, you also need to prefix unicode string literals with "u": some_string = u'idzie wąż wąską dróżką'. Commented Jun 9, 2011 at 8:06
  • on a diffrent string I am getting """UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 1845-1846: character maps to <undefined>"""... does that mean a different encoding is required? Commented Jun 9, 2011 at 8:20
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    or #!/usr/bin/env python # coding: utf-8 Commented Jun 9, 2011 at 8:47

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