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Author wiscados
Recipients wiscados
Date 2007-11-24.21:00:40
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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
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