On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Jaroslav Dobrek <jaroslav.dob...@gmail.com> wrote: > My problem is solved. What I need to do is explicitly decode text when > reading it. Then I can catch exceptions. I might do this in future > programs.
Apologies if it's already been said (I'm only skimming this thread), but ISTM that you want to open the file in binary mode. You'll then get back a bytes() instead of a str(), and you can attempt to decode it separately. You may then need to do your own division into lines that way, though. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list