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opening a file - baronmontesqieu - Dec-06-2017
i am trying to open a file.
it is not letting me read the file.
WHY?
this is my code
with open('C:/Users/j_pra/Desktop/98-0.txt','r') as myfile:
print (myfile.read())and this is the error i am getting UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-24de5ab647f0> in <module>()
1 with open('C:/Users/j_pra/Desktop/98-0.txt','r') as myfile:
----> 2 print (myfile.read())
~\Anaconda3\lib\encodings\cp1252.py in decode(self, input, final)
21 class IncrementalDecoder(codecs.IncrementalDecoder):
22 def decode(self, input, final=False):
---> 23 return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
24
25 class StreamWriter(Codec,codecs.StreamWriter):
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 6552: character maps to <undefined>please help soon. Thank you.
RE: opening a file - Larz60+ - Dec-06-2017
with open('C:/Users/j_pra/Desktop/98-0.txt','r', encoding='utf8') as myfile:
RE: opening a file - baronmontesqieu - Dec-06-2017
Yeah sorry i realized that thank you so much