On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 3:58 PM, <bellcanada...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:09:29 UTC-5, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan >> wrote: >>> > It does auto-detect it as cp1252- look at the files in the traceback and >>> > you'll see lib\encodings\cp1252.py. Since cp1252 seems to be the wrong >>> > encoding, try opening it as utf-8 or latin1 and see if that fixes it. >>> >>> Thanks a lot ! utf-8 and latin1 were accepted ! >> >> hello i am having same issue..i believe the code is written in python 2 and >> i am running python 3.6..i tried at the interpreter..f = >> open(filename, encoding="utf-8" and also latin-1..but then when i run my >> file i still get the error...also my line is at 7414..how do you find this >> line??...is it better to try to run the file .py in python 2??..thnxz > > As suggested by others, if this is a text file, request the encoding > from the person who created it. chardet can't really autodetect all > encodings, and neither can guessing encodings in a more manual way - > though if there's no one to ask, sometimes chardet is better than not > reading the file :)
Yep. And if chardet says it's MacCyrillic, it's probably actually Codepage 1256 - that's been my experience. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
