SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xa3' in file when function returns '£'
<p>Hi I'm trying understand why I'm getting this error.</p>

<p>Say I have a function:</p>

<pre><code>def NewFunction():
    return '£'
</code></pre>

<p>I want to print some stuff with a pound sign in front of it and it prints an error when I try to run this program, this error message is displayed:</p>

<pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xa3' in file 'blah' but no encoding declared;
see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
</code></pre>

<p>Can anyone inform me how I can include a pound sign in my return function. I'm basically using it in a class and it's within the '<strong>str</strong>' part that the pound sign is included.</p>

<p>Regards</p>

<p>SNIFFY</p>
