I am facing an error while i try to load a file in python 3

Question

f = open(path,'r',encoding='utf8')

This is the code I'm trying to run but it outputs 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte as the error. What might be the reason for this?

Answer 1

Try changing your encoding to utf-8, and see if that fixes it. Otherwise, the file might not be encoded in utf-8.