Non-ASCII character in file

[zimmermann6]

with Sage 8.8 (the version shipped with Debian):

$ sage
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SageMath version 8.8, Release Date: 2019-06-26                     │
│ Using Python 2.7.15. Type "help()" for help.                       │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
sage: from scipy.stats import norm
   File "/usr/local/SageMath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/stats/_continuous_distns.py", line 3345
     pp. 1–13, 1997.
                    ^
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file /usr/local/SageMath/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scipy/stats/_continuous_distns.py on line 3346, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

The following line should be added in the file:

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

Same for _stats_mstats_common.py

Component: misc

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/28505

[fchapoton]

comment:1

Works fine with python3-built sage. Time to switch ?

[embray]

comment:2

Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

[mkoeppe]

comment:3

Is this fixed with #28154?

[fchapoton]

comment:4

Works fine for me.

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ SageMath version 9.1.beta0, Release Date: 2020-01-10               │
│ Using Python 3.7.3. Type "help()" for help.                        │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable.     ┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
sage: from scipy.stats import norm
sage: 

[zimmermann6]

comment:5

I will try with Sage 9.0, if I manage to compile it from source on my machine, which was not the case for 8.8 and 8.9. See #28768.

[mkoeppe]

comment:6

Moving tickets to milestone sage-9.2 based on a review of last modification date, branch status, and severity.

[mkoeppe]

comment:7

Likely outdated after our switch to Python 3.

[zimmermann6]

comment:8

I confirm from scipy.stats import norm works with 9.0.