Python: Check whether my string contains non ascii chars

Question

I work with dictionary and I want to detect keys which contains non-english characters like 'č' for example.

This is my code:

for i in dictionaryMemory.keys():
            czechChars=['á','é','í','ó','ů','ě','ř','ť','č','š','ž']
            if any(s in i for s in czechChars):
                dictionaryMemory.pop(i)
                print(i)

But when I try to run this code, eclipse prints that SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file...

Ok, so I try to put # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-¨. It seems to work, but it can't find any of these characters. What to do?

EDIT: In the project properties I found this: Text file encoding: inherited from container(Cp1250)

I have a problems with encoding very usually but can't still figure out how to do it in a proper way...

Note that after adding # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- eclipse has a tendency to convert all non-ascii characters already in the file to ?. So make sure that after you add that, and save - they're not all deleted. — tktk
– tktk, Commented Jun 7, 2014 at 17:46

Milano · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-07 17:57:03Z

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Like Tal Kremerman and Mark Ransom said, I tried to change the coding comment from utf-8 to cp1250 and then I checked, whether the chars in my code were in proper format, they did not so I changed them to č,š,ř... and finally it works!

answered Jun 7, 2014 at 17:57

Milano

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