How to define python source code encoding?
While using non-ASCII characters in your code, you might get this error: "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file myprog.py on line 101, but no encoding declared;". Solution is to define encoding at the beginning of your source code. Syntax: # -*- coding: desired_encoding -*- Example: # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- For details check http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ .