Nobbie wrote:we had this problem here a few times. I do not have an OSX machine but it seems, that it offers a kind of "backtick-double-qoute" on the keyboard with an extended character code. Its not a queston of any Python software, its a question of these special characters. If you strongly magnify your text, you will see, that these quotes are looking strange. Simply use the correct quotes instead.
Anyway, keep an eye on which keys you are using for double quotes. This error will also apply in PHP Scripts etc. if you use the wrong keys.
Turns out with some simple playing around with the editor and keyboard settings on the Mac host, and zooming in as you suggested, it was NOT the wrong keys being hit, but (apparently - haven't tested yet but I will and will get back to this thread afterward) the WRONG KEYBOARD SETTINGS. I tried several times typing a double quote, saw it appear correctly, then it would suddenly CHANGE to a serif style quote (which is what is actually causing the problem). Now that I've changed the default keyboard style to United States - PC it's not doing that anymore so my confidence is fairly high that this my work now.
Nobbie wrote:moonwalker_repeat wrote: I googled those two added strings and found that they have something to do with Python.
Sorry, but thats bullshit. You simply hit the wrong keys on your keyboard
Wrong on both counts. Copy and paste the red strings into Google and you'll see for yourself that virtually every result is related to Python. When the OSsettings in use mess with the characters in any single code in a multi-code system, that can throw errors in other codes in the same system. That appears to be what probably happened here. "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck."
I do not have an OSX machine
Perhaps then, this isn't the best forum for you to be trying to help in?
A word of advice? Try to avoid jumping to conclusions, especially when the conclusion is "operator error." In MANY cases, as is true in this case, it may not be that at all. Not only that, it's off putting and honestly not very helpful. You are here to help, right?