for lin in openfile:

[Skaperen]

i did the command py3 seeintent.py fd12.py which was printing lots of ASCII stuff for debugging then printed the file it read in and it ended with:

Output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "seeintent.py", line 54, in <module>
    print(line)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xa9' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)
lt1/pdh /home/pdh 73> lines 53 56 seeintent.py
for line in a:
    print(line)
stdout.flush()
lt1/pdh /home/pdh 74> lines 15 18 fd12.py
__license__ = """
Copyright © 2016, by Phil D. Howard - all other rights reserved

lt1/pdh /home/pdh 75>

the character at issue is '©' (code point U+00A9) which should be handled OK if stdout was open()'d with encoding='utf-8'. but it wasn't. and i couldn't