$ cat bla.py
u = unicode('d…')
s = u.encode('utf-8')
print s
$ python bla.py
File "bla.py", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file bla.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
How can I declare utf-8 strings in source code?
解决方案
In source header you can declare:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
....
It is described in the PEP 0263:
Then you can use UTF-8 in strings:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
u = 'idzie wąż wąską dróżką'
uu = u.decode('utf8')
s = uu.encode('cp1250')
print(s)
This declaration is not needed in Python 3 as UTF-8 is the default source encoding (see PEP 3120).