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19Y6C33 ONG TENG WEE
19Y6C33 ONG TENG WEE

Reputation: 31

Cannot read from text file using readlines() method

I used to be able to perform file io operations on plain text files using python 3, however a few days ago I encountered errors whenever I tried to use the readlines() method on plain text files.

File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

I get this above error message whenever I try to use the readlines() method, previously it worked as it was supposed to.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 739

Answers (1)

JaviML
JaviML

Reputation: 51

Are you specifying the encoding when opening the file?

with open('file', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
      ...

Upvotes: 1

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