Non-ASCII Characters in Comments

[Alex Chase]

I'm putting together a kind of proof-of-concept experiment and wanted to use a mixture of ASCII and Unicode characters as stimuli. In order to keep clear in my code what a "text = u'\u25D3'" actually was, I put a comment after the line with the Unicode character itself. This caused a "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character on line 36, but no encoding declared" output. Doesn't matter if it's a #comment or a """comment""".

Is there a reason for PsychoPy to assess the syntax/encoding of comments?

[Jeremy Gray]

Hi Alex,

This is almost certainly a python issue, not a psychopy issue.

Try starting your experiment with these two lines:

#!/usr/bin/env python

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

--Jeremy

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Alex Chase <aec...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm putting together a kind of proof-of-concept experiment and wanted to use a mixture of ASCII and Unicode characters as stimuli. In order to keep clear in my code what a "text = u'\u25D3'" actually was, I put a comment after the line with the Unicode character itself. This caused a "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character on line 36, but no encoding declared" output. Doesn't matter if it's a #comment or a """comment""".

Is there a reason for PsychoPy to assess the syntax/encoding of comments?

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[Jonas Lindeløv]

... and maintain that "u" as prefix to strings wherever you can. PsychoPy often throws an error if you don't. The second of these is good:

stim.setText('danes have these weird letters: æøå')

stim.setText(u'danes have these weird letters: æøå')

Best,

Jonas