SyntaxError: invalid non-printable character U+00A0 in python [closed]

Question

I'm getting the error:

SyntaxError: invalid non-printable character U+00A0

When I'm running the code below:

# coding=utf-8
from PIL import Image
 
img = Image.open("img.png")

I have tried to load different images with different formats (png, jpg, jpeg). I have tried using different versions of the Pillow library. I have also tried running it using python 2 and 3.

Answer 1

The problem was related to a fake space found in the third line (the empty one). It is a character that looks like a space but is actually something else which is not detected by python. By removing this character the error disappeared. The character is this: