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Although I included 

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

in the first line of the python file, I keep getting 

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfe' in file C:\Users\user\PycharmProjects\my_project\my_script.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

I use PyCharm Community Edition on Windows 7. Please help.

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  • Try reload(sys);sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8') at the start. (It is the same as shebang) Commented Jan 10, 2015 at 19:44
  • A hex dump of the first line of the file would be a helpful addition to your question. Commented Jan 10, 2015 at 20:00

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Your file is not saved as UTF-8. Most probably you have saved in some legacy 8-bit encoding (ISO-8859-1 or the like).

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UTF-16 is also a realistic possibility. In fact, a UTF-16le BOM would cause exactly this symptom.
A UTF-16LE BOM wouldn't cause this. That would error out on b'\xff'. It would have to be UTF-16BE, which is far less likely. Your answer itself is likely correct.
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I am not sure if I totally understood your question.

But sometimes this can solve the issue:

import sys
reload(sys)
setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

Or try to open the file by applied an encoding format. for instance:

import codecs
 with codecs.open(filename, 'r3', encoding='utf-8') as fd:
     do something.
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It file is with encoding wrong. Change it to UTF-8 and try again.

Example in notepad ++:

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