parsing non-ascii characters

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On Nov 10, 10:13 am, Ronn <ronn.r... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a list:
>   suffix = ["aĉ", "ad", "aĵ", "an", "ar"]
>
> and I'm trying to check a word to see if any of the suffixes exist in
> the list for example:
>   if word in suffix:
>       print "A suffix exist in your word"
>
> when I run this it give me an error:
>    SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc5' in file vortaro.py on line
> 33, but no encoding declared;
>
> is there a way to parse Non-ASCII characters in python?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ronn

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