subtraction is giving me a syntax error

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Joel Pendery wrote:

> So I am trying to write a bit of code and a simple numerical
> subtraction
>
> y_diff = y_diff-H
>
> is giving me the error
>
> Syntaxerror: Non-ASCII character '\x96' in file on line 70, but no
> encoding declared.
>
> Even though I have deleted some lines before it and this line is no
> longer line 70, I am still getting the error every time.  I have tried
> to change the encoding of the file to utf-8 but to no avail, I still
> am having this issue.  Any ideas?


0x96 is the Win1252 minus sign character. Did you copy & paste this  
code from a Web browser or a word processor?

Delete the character between "y_diff" and "H" and replace it with a  
plain ASCII subtraction sign.