语法错误：第 3 行文件 prueba.py 中的非 ASCII 字符“\\xe2”

Question

I was trying something and I get this error. I searched and i found I have to add # encoding=utf8 but the output was different from what I was expecting

My code:

print ' -------\n│      │\n│      │\n│     │\n││      │\n ------'

First error:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file prueba.py on line 3, but 
no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

Code output:

-------
Ôöé      Ôöé
Ôöé      Ôöé
Ôöé     Ôöé
ÔöéÔöé      Ôöé
------

Answer 1

I guess the problem is you define to use utf8 but don't use a utf8 string. Maybe try to say print u' -------\\n│ │\\n│ │\\n│ │\\n││ │\\n ------'