Python NLTK: SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file (Sentiment Analysis -NLP)

Question

I am playing around with NLTK to do an assignment on sentiment analysis. I am using Python 2.7. NLTK 3.0 and NumPy1.9.1 version.

This is the code :

Answer 1

Add the following to the top of your file # coding=utf-8

If you go to the link in the error you can seen the reason why:

Defining the Encoding

Python will default to ASCII as standard encoding if no other encoding hints are given. To define a source code encoding, a magic comment must be placed into the source files either as first or second line in the file, such as: # coding=