Martin Panter added the comment: By default, open("test.json") will open the file in text mode, decoding from the encoding determined by your environment. See <https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/functions.html#open>, in particular, “The default encoding is platform dependent (whatever locale.getpreferredencoding() returns)”.
If your file’s encoding is determined some other way, you should specify that other encoding. For JSON, I understand UTF-8 is generally always used, so you should call open("test.json", encoding="utf-8"). ---------- nosy: +martin.panter resolution: -> not a bug status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25028> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com