[pygtk] Unable to run your tutorial examples

[John Finlay]

A.K.Karthikeyan wrote:
> Hello PyGTK people,
>
> I have tried to run *pygtkconsole.py* 
> <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/examples/pygtkconsole.py> and 
> *gpython.py* <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/examples/gpython.py> 
> found in http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/ch-Introduction.html on my 
> Ubuntu 8.04, but I got the following error message
>
> <http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/examples/gpython.py>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "pygtkconsole.py", line 14, in <module>
>     import gtk
>   File "/media/sda7/python/py/gtk.py", line 2
> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file 
> /media/sda7/python/py/gtk.py on line 2, but no encoding declared; see 
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
>
> and
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "gpython.py", line 16, in <module>
>     import gtk, gobject
>   File "/media/sda7/python/py/gtk.py", line 2
> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file 
> /media/sda7/python/py/gtk.py on line 2, but no encoding declared; see 
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
>
> I am clueless what to even after visiting 
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html as there are no non-ASCII 
> characters in program. Can any one help me?
>   
The problem is the file "/media/sda7/python/py/gtk.py" that interferes 
with the importing of the gtk module. If possible you should rename this 
file or make sure it isn't in the import path of python.

John