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I tried this code in Python 2: def NewFunction(): return '£' But I get an error message that says: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xa3' in file '...' but no encoding declared; see http://www....

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when I prefix my .py file using utf-8 or Latin-1 I always get bad charcacters in OUTPUT or in matplotlib figure text. Post 'Working with UTF-8 encoding in Python source' does not answer my question ...

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PEP 263 defines how to declare Python source code encoding. Normally, the first 2 lines of a Python file should start with: #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: <encoding name> -*- But I have seen a ...

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I am using Python 2.6.5. My code requires the use of the "more than or equal to" sign. Here it goes: >>> s = u'\u2265' >>> print s >>> ≥ >>> print "{0}".format(s)...

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I have this line of code in python print 'hello world' against print ('hello world') can someone tell me the difference between the two? I used it in a a simple code var = 3 if var > 2: ...

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I'm using python 2.7. I've tried many things like codecs but didn't work. How can I fix this. myfile.txt wörd My code f = open('myfile.txt','r') for line in f: print line f.close() Output s\...

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Im starting with python and when i use the interpreter and run this code: >>>peliculas = ["movie1", "movie2", "movie3", "movie4"] >>>print(peliculas[1]) when i use Pycharm IDE it ...

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Question: How can i solve no-ascii character error executing pserve on virtualenv in windows? Description: I'm trying to execute pserve (pyllons/pyramid development web server) inside a virtualenv on ...

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Recently, I have been reading about the Python source code encoding, especially PEP 263 and PEP 3120. I have the following code: # coding:utf-8 s = 'abc∂ ́ƒ©' ƒ = 'My name is' ß = ' ̊ß ̇ˆ†ˆ∆ ßå®åø©ˆ' ...

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While I managed to get all the data that I need as well as save it on a cv file, the output I get is in UTF-8 format, which is normal(correct me If I'm wrong) TBH I've already "played" with the ....

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i am selecting values from a MySQL // Maria DB that contains latin1 charset with latin1_swedish_ci collation. There are possible characters from different European language as Spanish ñ, German ä or ...

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I am trying to write characters with double dots (umlauts) such as ä, ö and Ö. I am able to write it to the file with data.encode("utf-8") but the result b'\xc3\xa4\xc3\xa4\xc3\x96' is not nice (UTF-8 ...

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I am using the following code to scrape a webpage that contains Japanese characters: import urllib2 import bs4 import time url = 'http://www.city.sapporo.jp/eisei/tiiki/toban.html' pagecontent = ...

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Using PyMongo 3.10.1, MongoDB 4.2 the aggregation below, using $group with $regexMatch works OK on command line: db.accounts.aggregate([ {'$lookup': {'from': 'users', 'localField': '_id', '...

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I keep getting an error and I'm not sure on how to fix it. The Code line: if not len(lines) or lines[-1] == '' or lines[-1] == '▁': lines = list(filter(lambda line: False if line == '' or line ==...