On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 09:12:32 UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 03:55:58 -0700, bellcanadardp wrote: > > > the collFile has to be like a variable that would refer to the file > > Collection.dat..thats my best guess also in the error line , it doesnt > > actually open the file ... > > The file has to be opened if you are reading from it. If it isn't opened > in the line of code you are looking at, look at the rest of the code. > *Somewhere* is must be opened. > > > > > -- > Steven D'Aprano > "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing > it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson
yes thank you further down in the script..the collectionFile is indeed opened and all it took was this line, to get the full program to work in python 3 ************** self.collFile=open(self.collectionFile,'r',encoding='utf-8') ****************** where ,encoding='utf-8' is the only change that had to be made, pointed out from INADA (plus i used the 2to3.py, which corrected many print statements) thanks alot for your efforts...im sure i will need this forum for future errors thanks again to all who posted for this python 2 to python3 utf-8 unicodedecode error its very kind and built on the online programmers community spirit tommy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
