Unable to run script because of the 'å's presence in my script

Question

Here is the line that causes the error:

emner = browser.find_element_by_link_text('Armbåndsure og lommeure')

And the output:

  File "test.py", line 96
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\xe5' in file test.py on line 96, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

I need to have this "å" in my script there is no way around it, I cant replace it. How do I "allow" it to be in my script. I know its something about unicode, but I dont know that much about it. So I thought a kind person would help me out here on stack overflow.

Thanks in advance!

I just pasted your string and it printed properly (python 3). No encoding needed. — Jean-François Fabre, Nov 18 '16 at 20:13
It looks like you probably saved this file in something like Latin-1. Save it in UTF-8 instead. — user2357112, Nov 18 '16 at 20:14
no way around it? what about `'Armb\xe5ndsure og lommeure'` ? — Jean-François Fabre, Nov 18 '16 at 20:15

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 19 '16 at 03:44

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You have saved your file in a non-UTF8 encoding, but Python 3 interprets files as UTF8-encoded by default.

Either save the file as UTF8 from whatever text editor you are using, or add the line # coding: latin-1 as the first or second line in your file.

If you are unable to do either, you can replace the non-ASCII text with an ASCII-only escape sequence: 'Armb\xe5ndsure og lommeure'

edited Nov 19 '16 at 03:44

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Unable to run script because of the 'å's presence in my script

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