CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonjson
Real123
Real123

Reputation: 5

Encode json file using with open

I am using with open to open my json file and parse data from it, however some characters aren't ascii. I google around and found that you have to set encoding='utf8' in with open(), so I do this and get this error

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xf6' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

So I figure I have to use ensure_ascii=False but then I get this error

TypeError: 'ensure_ascii' is an invalid keyword argument for open()

As you can see by the error ensure_ascii isn't compatible with open() but I don't know what is and I seem to be stuck and unable to find it.

The code being used

with open("languages.json", 'r', encoding='utf8') as f:
    languages = json.load(f)
with open("config.json", 'r', encoding='utf8') as c:
    config = json.load(c)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1086

Answers (1)

damaredayo
damaredayo

Reputation: 1077

I believe that utf8 is not the correct keyword, instead use utf-8 in your encoding=

Upvotes: 1

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