Fix Python SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with ‘\xd5’ – Python Tutorial

By | August 13, 2019

In this tutorial, we will introduce on how to fix SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with. From this tutorial, we will learn why this error occur and know how to fix it.

Look at code below.

import re
str = u'这个是我的blog网站:https://www.tutorialexample.com'

In line 2, this error occurs.

syntaxerror - non-utf-8 code starting with

Why this error occur?

The reason is str is a unicode string and is encoded by utf-8. However, our test.py file is not utf-8 encoding.

How to fix this error?

Set test.py file to be utf-8 encoding.

set python file to utf-8 encoding

Then you may find the value of str is garbled, then change it. Finally, this error is fixed.

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