SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2'

Question

I wrote a program to give me the value of the Mega Doge Coin

import time
import urllib2
from datetime import datetime

def get_HTML():
    response = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.dogepay.com')
    html = response.read()
    return html

def get_Value(rawHTML):
    index = rawHTML.find(“CCFF00”)
    while(rawHTML[index] != “$”):
            index = index + 1
    index = index + 1
    value = “”
    while(rawHTML[index].isdigit() or rawHTML[index] == ‘.’):
            value = value + rawHML[index]
            index = index + 1
    return float(value)

def get_DateTime():
    now = datetime.now()
    return '%s/%s/%s %s:%s:%s' % (now.month, now.day, now.year, now.hour, 
                                  now.minute, now.second)

def print_Output(DogeCoinValue, TimeDate):
    print timeDate + “ $“ + str(dogeCoinValue)

while(True):
    rawHTML = get_HTML()
    dogeCoinValue = get_Value(rawHTML)
    timeDate = get_DateTime()
    print_Output(dogeCoinValue, timeDate)
    time.sleep(5)

But when I go to run it I get

File "MegaDogeCoinTicker.py", line 11
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file MegaDogeCoinTicker.py on line 
11, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html 
for details

What do I need to do to fix it? It worked when I was running it on my pi but I can't seem to get it to run on my laptop. My laptop is running Python 2.7.5

I changed all the “ to " and the ‘ to ' and got Traceback (most recent call last): File "MegaDogeCoinTicker.py", line 29, in <module> rawHTML = get_HTML() File "MegaDogeCoinTicker.py", line 6, in get_HTML response = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.dogepay.com') NameError: global name 'urllib' is not defined — AceFuzion
– AceFuzion, Commented Aug 7, 2014 at 19:41
...which is a completely different error, meaning your question has been solved. — Charles Duffy
– Charles Duffy, Commented Aug 7, 2014 at 19:46

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:00:10Z

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In addition to not using non-ascii quotation marks, you should add to the top line of your code:

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

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mgilson · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-07 19:32:02Z

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You should use standard ASCII quotes:

index = rawHTML.find("CCFF00")

rather than:

index = rawHTML.find(“CCFF00”)

answered Aug 7, 2014 at 19:32

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g.d.d.c Over a year ago

Which is to suggest, choose a better editor for whatever you're writing your python code in.

mgilson Over a year ago

@g.d.d.c -- Yep, it's usually a good idea to use an editor which is designed for writing code :-)

Mark Ransom Over a year ago

@g.d.d.c this has the smell of MS Word all over it.

AceFuzion Over a year ago

I changed all the “ to " and the ‘ to ' and got

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "MegaDogeCoinTicker.py", line 29, in <module>     rawHTML = get_HTML()   File "MegaDogeCoinTicker.py", line 6, in get_HTML     response = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.dogepay.com') NameError: global name 'urllib' is not defined

Charles Duffy Over a year ago

@AceFuzion, well, getting that error means this one should be fixed. Also, if you read your code, its cause should be completely obvious.

Christy · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-08 16:25:44Z

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I was running into this and it turns out that my copy/paste from my browser copied what looked like a plain dash character but wasn't. Maybe something simple to look out for.

answered Feb 8, 2019 at 16:25

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