I have been trying to write a simple Hello World script on my Mac at work with TextEdit. However, I keep getting this error message: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ' xe2' in hello_world.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see for details I am using TextEdit in plain text mode. Program that reads text for mac. The document was saved in UTF-8, and I still get the error message.

I tried switching to Western ASCII encoding, but once I start typing, I get a message stating that the document can no longer be saved using its original Western (ASCII) encoding. Any suggestions for a good open source text editor for the Mac out there? For now, I am going to stick with vim. On 2016-06-18 00:52, Chris via Python-list wrote: > I have been trying to write a simple Hello World script on my Mac at work with TextEdit. However, I keep getting this error message: > > SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character ' xe2' in hello_world.py on line 1, but no encoding declared; see for details > > I am using TextEdit in plain text mode. The document was saved in UTF-8, and I still get the error message.

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I tried switching to Western ASCII encoding, but once I start typing, I get a message stating that the document can no longer be saved using its original Western (ASCII) encoding. > > Any suggestions for a good open source text editor for the Mac out there?

For now, I am going to stick with vim. > Did you specify the encoding as described in the PEP? It should be something like: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- as the first or second line. On 6/18/2016 3:04 AM, Michael Vilain via Python-list wrote: > In article, > support@ecourierz.com wrote: > >> use notepad++ To me, for programming only in Python, IDLE beats Notepad++. Some features noted below. > [.pay no attention to the little windows troll behind the curtain] > > 'best' is subjective. Anytime someone wants the 'best', I ask 'what > features are important to you that would make it the best' because I'm > pretty sure what I find important wouldn't be what they find important.