Issue 1495: Unicode in a comment. (original) (raw)

My script reports this problem:

""" $ python bug.py File "bug.py", line 4 SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file bug.py on line 4, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details """

This error looks fine and all, but the problem is that the non-ASCII character (in this case '¤') is in a comment, not in the script itself. If I remove it the non-ASCII character from the comment, it runs perfectly.

I always assumed that comment didn't effect the script.

This isn't exactly a big problem, but I don't think it should be this way.

I included the demo script.

PS. $ python -V Python 2.5.1