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[Micael]

Thank you heiner55 and snippsat for your quick replies.

I tried the code heiner55 showed me and got this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test3.py", line 6, in <module>
for line in thefile:
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/codecs.py", line 319, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 343: invalid continuation byte

Any idea how to find out if it's utf-8?

-- UPDATE --
Forget the question as I'm using Linux Mint I tried Kate editor and found out that the file was not coded in utf-8 so I saved it as a utf-8 and it works fine.

Thanks again. The two of you saved my day. Now I just have to understand the code really well.