Non-ASCII character Syntax Error in Python while calling URL

Question

How can data can be sent to the server?

For example, I have retrieve MAC address, so I want send to the server (e.g. http://211.21.24.43:8080/data?mac=00-0C-F1-56-98-AD)

I found this snippet on the Internet:

from urllib2 import Request, urlopen
from binascii import b2a_base64

def b64open(url, postdata):
  req = Request(url, b2a_base64(postdata), headers={'Content-Transfer-Encoding': 'base64'})
  return urlopen(req)

conn = b64open("http://211.21.24.43:8080/data","mac=00-0C-F1-56-98-AD")

but when I run it, I get:

File "send2.py", line 8
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file send2.py on line 8, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details

Can anyone help me send data to the server?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

put the encoding at the top of .py file

example:

#!/usr/bin/env python
#coding: utf8 
import os
...

This probably happened because you copied/pasted some unicode character that is not visible in your text editor.

Answer 2

This solution works for me on Ubuntu.

Add the following statement right at the beginning, before all import statements.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-`

Similar approach for errors with the term '\xe2'.