Johannes Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./modify.py", line 12, in <module> > a = AddressBook("2008_11_05_Handy_Backup.txt") > File "./modify.py", line 7, in __init__ > line = f.readline() > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1807, in readline > while self._read_chunk(): > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1556, in _read_chunk > self._set_decoded_chars(self._decoder.decode(input_chunk, eof)) > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/io.py", line 1293, in decode > output = self.decoder.decode(input, final=final) > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/codecs.py", line 300, in decode > (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.0/encodings/utf_16.py", line 69, in > _buffer_decode > return self.decoder(input, self.errors, final) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf16' codec can't decode bytes in position 74-75: > illegal encoding
It probably means what it says: that the input file contains characters it cannot read using the specified encoding. Are you generating the file from python using a file object with the same encoding? If not, then you might want to look at your input data and find a way to deal with the exception. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list