Unsupported characters in input In Python IDLE

Question

suffixes = {
    1: [\"ो\", \"े\", \"ू\", \"ु\", \"ी\", \"ि\", \"ा\"]}

When I done message given by IDLE is

Unsupported characters         


        

Answer 1

This seems to be a known bug in the 2.x IDLE console: http://bugs.python.org/issue15809. A fix was made for Python 3.x, but doesn't appear to be backported.

Instead, use an alternative console, such as iPython/Jupyter, or a fully-fledged IDE, such as PyCharm.