Python 2.7: How to print this character?

Question

I want to print this character "¥" in python 2.7. Here is my code:

test = "¥"
print(test)

I execute this code and I get this error message:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file main.py on line 5, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

How to print this character? Thanks in advance

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 24 '20 at 04:11

You need to specify the following line in the top of file:

# -*- coding: <encoding> -*-

Next time when you run this file Python will know what the encoding of that character is.

It will look like this, assuming you use utf-8.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
test = "¥"
print(test)

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