SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc4' in file hc_deeplab.py, but no encoding declared;

[sparshrestha]

After the setup and all requirements met, running ./run_extract_feat.sh may produce such error in Linux environment.

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc4' in file /SIGGRAPH18SSS-master/deeplab_resnet/hc_deeplab.py on line 7, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

[sparshrestha]

The above error message is displayed by Python when character encoding set other then ASCII is used withing your codebase. Solution here is to add this to the top of your hc_deeplab.py file in deeplab_resnet folder to enable UTF-8 encoding:

# - *- coding: utf- 8 - *-