get original code after being encoded to UTF-8

[ashok]

hello every one,
i have problem, i can't get access to my python code.
when i reopen the editor i found it encode it to UTF-8.
any suggestions ?

[Larz60+]

UTF-8 is the norm for python.
did you inadvertently open with a 'w' mode?
if you did and don't have a backup, you may have destroyed your data.
If you made this mistake, the file will have a length of 0.
if a text file, you can look at it with any text editor.

[ashok]

no i can run python code, file has length more than 0. i don't think data is being destroyed!
it's python file, it's there a way to decode the file and get the code ?

[ndc85430]

If it's in UTF-8, then there's nothing else to do. Why would you need to decode it? I think you need to show us the file.

[ashok]

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here's how it looks!
is there a solution to get access to my code!?
i spent a long time in searching but with no results yet ....

[ndc85430]

Which editor are you using? If it is really UTF-8, can't you just tell the editor that that's what the encoding is?

Otherwise, what did you do to end up with this? What OS are you on?

[ashok]

between windows (python IDLE) and rasbian (geany).
maybe it ended up like this because i work on the same code file between the two OS!!! right?

[ndc85430]

I doubt that's the case really. I haven't used IDLE (I gather it's a pretty poor IDE). On Raspbian, if you run file on the file in a terminal, what does it say?

[ashok]

i don't know, i don't have a raspberry card now .. maybe tomorrow i can tell

[ashok]

when i run file on the file in a terminal iget data as result, like this:
prg.py: data