how to print chinese word in my code.. using python

Question

This is my code:

print \'哈哈\'.decode(\'gb2312\').encode(\'utf-8\')

...and it prints:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character \'\\x         


        

Answer 1

You need to specify the encoding of the python source code file, here is the coding for utf-8. It goes at the top right underneath the path the the python interpreter.

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

If you go to the url in the error message you can find more information about specifying the encoding of a python source file.

Once you specify the encoding of the source file, you shouldn't have to decode the text.