On Sunday, 20 May 2018 08:58:32 UTC-4, Richard Damon wrote: > On 5/20/18 7:59 AM, bellcanada...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:03:09 UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 8:58 AM, <bellcanada...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:09:29 UTC-5, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan > >>> wrote: > >>>>> It does auto-detect it as cp1252- look at the files in the traceback and > >>>>> you'll see lib\encodings\cp1252.py. Since cp1252 seems to be the wrong > >>>>> encoding, try opening it as utf-8 or latin1 and see if that fixes it. > >>>> Thanks a lot ! utf-8 and latin1 were accepted ! > >>> hello i am having same issue..i believe the code is written in python 2 > >>> and i am running python 3.6..i tried at the interpreter..f = > >>> open(filename, encoding="utf-8" and also latin-1..but then when i run my > >>> file i still get the error...also my line is at 7414..how do you find > >>> this line??...is it better to try to run the file .py in python 2??..thnxz > >> You're responding to something from 2009. > >> > >> Your file is apparently not encoded the way you think it is. You'll > >> have to figure out what it ACTUALLY is. > >> > >> ChrisA > > > > hello Chris > > thank you for the reply, but how exactly am i supposed to find oout what is > > the correct encodeing?? > > Basically, you need to know it from some other source to be totally > certain. This is part of the 'disaster' of 8 bit code pages. > > There are a few guesses that can be done that often get you close. > utf-8, IF it validates is almost always what the file is (unless it is > just ASCII, where you generally never even notice the issue). > > There are programs that will look at some heuristics in the file and try > to guess. Another option is to open the file in a text editor which will > be more forgiving and show the bad character as an error symbol, and see > if you can recognize what 'language' (human) the user seems to have > been using, and guess the character encoding from that (or just remove > the bad characters if they are just in comments/unimportant strings.) > > -- > Richard Damon
thank you for the email reply Richard Damon i will study all your great guidelines i actually got my script to function by running it in python 2.7 thanx for your kind suggestions very much tommy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
