Special characters problems using Python unicode

Question

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf_8 -*-

def splitParagraphIntoSentences(paragraph):

\'\'\' break a paragraph into sentences
    and return a list \'\'\'
             


        

Answer 1

p = "While other species..."

should be changed to

p = u"While other species..."

Notice the u in front of the quote.

What you need is a so-called Unicode literals. In Python 2, string literals is not Unicode by default.