new to Django and Python

[Register, Brent (CMG-Atlanta)]

I get an error message when I run the 

"$ python manage.py syncdb"

Command.  

70

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file /Users/bmregister/djangoLocal/myFirstSite/myFirstSite/settings.py on line 70, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

I can’t find any characters ‘/xe2’ anywhere in the settings.py file, line 70 or other wise?  I am editing the file in the Xcode IDE.  The pep article really doesn’t help me much.  Any suggestions or ideas on what needs to be edited in my settings.py file?

Brent.

[Diogene Laerce]

On 12/27/2013 03:44 AM, Register, Brent (CMG-Atlanta) wrote:
> I get an error message when I run the
> "$ python manage.py syncdb"
> Command.
>
>
> 70
> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file
> /Users/bmregister/djangoLocal/myFirstSite/myFirstSite/settings.py on
> line 70, but no encoding declared; see
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
>

> I can�t find any characters �/xe2� anywhere in the settings.py file,

> line 70 or other wise? I am editing the file in the Xcode IDE. The pep

> article really doesn�t help me much. Any suggestions or ideas on what

> needs to be edited in my settings.py file?

Hi, When you save your file in your IDE, are you sure that you save it
as UTF-8 ?

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Diogene Laerce

[trojactory]

Hi Brent,

Did you try the suggestions in the PEP link? Try adding this line at the top of the file:

# coding: utf-8

Cheers,

Arun

[Damián Pérez]

this is because you are use special characters. you can include in you python files:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

regards,

[向量]

oh, my god.

your db have problem,

what db you use, mysql or sqlite?

在 2013年12月27日星期五UTC+8上午4时44分24秒，Brent Register写道：

[Hans S. Tømmerholt]

This seems to be a weird "'"-like character in the settings file. You'd see the character, not its Unicode code. Look carefully and try replacing it with a proper "'".

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7395789/replacing-a-weird-single-quote-with-blank-string-in-python

If you need to have non-ASCII characters in your source code files (us Norwegians sometimes use æøå, for example), you'd need to add something like this to the top of the Python source file:

# coding=UTF-8

and remember to save it with the proper encoding, UTF-8 in this case.

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Vennlig hilsen/Best regards
Hans S. Tømmerholt
Project manager, Web sites