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Mehavarnan Murugan
Mehavarnan Murugan

Reputation: 107

SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xae'

I am using Python in selenium to create scripts. When used the below code getting syntax error. I could find that the issue is with the registered trademark symbol '®' in title. Please help me out of this.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

driver.get('https://advance.lexis.com')
assert 'Lexis Advance® Sign In | LexisNexis' in driver.title

Upvotes: 1

Views: 12129

Answers (3)

programer_2021_storm
programer_2021_storm

Reputation: 1

That means you are using a character that your editor can't read or accept. I am writing a secret language program and I used .replace() to edit the text.

I used the ❊ character, and I had the same error! But I replaced it with another character, and now I have no problem.

Upvotes: 0

Navneet
Navneet

Reputation: 393

If you are using Python 3 and Pydev in Eclipse an alternate solution would be to change the file encoding to utf-8 in the properties as shown below. Just right click on the file, go to properties and change the encoding to utf-8

utf-encoding pydev (eclipse)

Upvotes: 2

dsh
dsh

Reputation: 12214

The content of your question is fine: I inspected it to see that StackOverflow provides the ® symbol encoded as UTF-8.

Based on the error message in the title, Python is reading the file as UTF-8 but I suspect that your editor is using a different encoding to save the file.

Perhaps it is using ISO 8859-1 (aka 'latin1'), or something else. ISO 8859-1 defines the byte 0xAE as the registered trademark symbol. Unicode also defines code point U+00AE as the registered trademark symbol.

You have two solutions:

  1. determine what encoding your editor is using and tell python by putting # encoding: foo at the top of your file
  2. configure your editor to use UTF-8

Upvotes: 2

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