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Hi,
its a really good work to join Blender with Radiance.
I've tried to work with BRAD, but I've an error (blender console):

Compiled with Python version 2.5.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
<string>:112: SyntaxWarning: name 'config_path' is assigned to before global dec
laration
<string>:112: SyntaxWarning: name 'brad_path' is assigned to before global decla
ration
<string>:112: SyntaxWarning: name 'configparserok' is assigned to before global
declaration
<string>:143: SyntaxWarning: name 'lang' is assigned to before global declaratio
n
<string>:143: SyntaxWarning: name 'editor_path' is assigned to before global dec
laration
<string>:143: SyntaxWarning: name 'config_path' is assigned to before global dec
laration
<string>:143: SyntaxWarning: name 'export_path' is assigned to before global dec
laration
<string>:143: SyntaxWarning: name 'debug' is assigned to before global declarati
on
<string>:143: SyntaxWarning: name 'brad_path' is assigned to before global decla
ration
<string>:143: SyntaxWarning: name 'radiance_binaries_path' is assigned to before
 global declaration
<string>:143: SyntaxWarning: name 'radiance_library_path' is assigned to before
global declaration
<string>:143: SyntaxWarning: name 'configparserok' is assigned to before global
declaration
<string>:704: SyntaxWarning: name 'X' is used prior to global declaration
<string>:709: SyntaxWarning: name 'Y' is used prior to global declaration
No existing configuration file: using default configuration.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 208, in <module>
  File "C:\Brad\brad\brad\brad_i18n.py", line 428
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe8' in file C:\Brad\brad\brad\brad_i18n.py o
n line 428, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.ht
ml for details


Where is the problem -Anyone can help me?
I have Win XP, Blender 2.44 (2.49) and Python 2.52 (I've tried version 2.62)...

Rafal,
Poland

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Answer

Hi Rafal, please try erasing any accented character inside the brad_i18n.py file and see if this solves your problem. Best, Francesco