error in a pygame code
- by mekasperasky
# INTIALISATION
import pygame, math, sys
from pygame.locals import *
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((1024, 768))
car = pygame.image.load('car.png')
clock = pygame.time.Clock()
k_up = k_down = k_left = k_right = 0
speed = direction = 0
position = (100, 100)
TURN_SPEED = 5
ACCELERATION = 2
MAX_FORWARD_SPEED = 10
MAX_REVERSE_SPEED = 5
BLACK = (0,0,0)
while 1:
# USER INPUT
clock.tick(30)
for event in pygame.event.get():
if not hasattr(event, 'key'): continue
down = event.type == KEYDOWN # key down or up?
if event.key == K_RIGHT: k_right = down * 5
elif event.key == K_LEFT: k_left = down * 5
elif event.key == K_UP: k_up = down * 2
elif event.key == K_DOWN: k_down = down * 2
elif event.key == K_ESCAPE: sys.exit(0) # quit the game
screen.fill(BLACK)
# SIMULATION
# .. new speed and direction based on acceleration and turn
speed += (k_up + k_down)
if speed > MAX_FORWARD_SPEED: speed = MAX_FORWARD_SPEED
if speed < MAX_REVERSE_SPEED: speed = MAX_REVERSE_SPEED
direction += (k_right + k_left)
# .. new position based on current position, speed and direction
x, y = position
rad = direction * math.pi / 180
x += speed*math.sin(rad)
y += speed*math.cos(rad)
position = (x, y)
# RENDERING
# .. rotate the car image for direction
rotated = pygame.transform.rotate(car, direction)
# .. position the car on screen
rect = rotated.get_rect()
rect.center = position
# .. render the car to screen
screen.blit(rotated, rect)
pygame.display.flip()
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the error i get is this Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file race1.py on line 13, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
Not able to understand what the error is and how to get rid of it?