On 2018-10-20 05:24:37 -0700, pjmcle...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Saturday, October 13, 2018 at 7:24:14 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote:
> > with open(join("docs", path), encoding="utf-8") as f:
>
> hello MRAB and google forum
I feel somewhat excluded by this salutaton, as I'm not MRAB and I don't
read this on Google Groups, but I'll answer anyway ;-).
> i have a sort of decode error it seems now very close to the line in my script
> which you solved for my 2 previous encode errors in python 3
>
> the error now is
> **************
> UnicodeDecodeError; 'utf-8' can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 83064: invalid
> start byte
[...]
> would the solution fix be this?
> **********************
> data = f.read(), decoding = "utf-8" #OR
> data = f.read(), decoding = "ascii" # is this the right fix or previous or
> both wrong??
0xB0 isn't a valid ASCII character, so you'll get a decoding error for
open(..., encoding="ascii"), too.
You will have to find out the correct encoding for your file and use
that.
hp
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