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      author      karan  import nltk import re import sys    def main        print  Start          getting the stop words     stopWords   open  english txt   r        stop word   stopWords read   split        AllStopWrd          for wd in stop word          AllStopWrd append wd       print  stop words- gt    AllStopWrd          sample and also cleaning it     tweet1   Love  my new toy                     iPhone6  Its good https   twitter com Sandra Ortega status 513807261769424897 photo 1      print  old tweet- gt    tweet1      tweet1   tweet1 lower       tweet1       join re sub     A-Za-z0-9       0-9A-Za-z  t     w       S        tweet1  split        print tweet1       tw   tweet1 split       print tw         tokenize     sentences   nltk word tokenize tweet1      print  tokenized - gt    sentences         remove stop words     Otweet         for w in tw          if w not in AllStopWrd              Otweet append w       print  sans stop word- gt    Otweet          get taggers for neg pos inc dec inv words     taggers         negWords   open  neg txt   r        neg word   negWords read   split        print  ned words- gt    neg word      posWords   open  pos txt   r        pos word   posWords read   split        print  pos words- gt    pos word      incrWords   open  incr txt   r        inc word   incrWords read   split        print  incr words- gt    inc word      decrWords   open  decr txt   r        dec word   decrWords read   split        print  dec wrds- gt    dec word      invWords   open  inverse txt   r        inv word   invWords read   split        print  inverse words- gt    inv word      for nw in neg word          taggers update  nw  negative         for pw in pos word          taggers update  pw  positive         for iw in inc word          taggers update  iw  inc         for dw in dec word          taggers update  dw  dec         for ivw in inv word          taggers update  ivw  inv         print  tagger- gt    taggers      print taggers get  little           get parts of speech     posTagger    nltk pos tag tw       print  posTagger- gt    posTagger   main      This is the error that I am getting when running my code   SyntaxError  Non-ASCII character   xc3  in file C  Users karan PycharmProjects mainProject sentiment py on line 19  but no encoding declared  see http   www python org peps pep-0263 html for details   How do I fix this error   I also tried the code using Python 3 4 2 and with NLTK 3 0 and NumPy 1 9 1 but then I get the error   Traceback  most recent call last     File  C  Users karan PycharmProjects mainProject sentiment py   line 80  in  lt module gt      main      File  C  Users karan PycharmProjects mainProject sentiment py   line 72  in main     posTagger    nltk pos tag tw     File  C  Python34 lib site-packages nltk tag   init   py   line 100  in pos tag     tagger   load  POS TAGGER    File  C  Python34 lib site-packages nltk data py   line 779  in load     resource val   pickle load opened resource  UnicodeDecodeError   ascii  codec can t decode byte 0xcb in position 0  ordinal not in range 128

User · Accepted Answer

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=

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

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