On 2019-10-25 22:12:23 +0200, Pascal wrote:
> for line in fileinput.input(source):
> print(line.strip())
>
> -----------------------
>
> python3.7.4 myscript.py myfile.log
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 799:
> invalid continuation byte
[...]
> for line in fileinput.input(source,
> openhook=fileinput.hook_encoded("utf-8", "ignore")):
> print(line.strip())
The file you were trying to read was obviously not encoded in UTF-8,
since you got a decode error.
So the first question you should ask is:
Is it supposed to be encoded in UTF-8 (and just corrupted) or is in
supposed to be encoded in something else (e.g. iso-8859-1 or win-1252)?
If it is supposed to be in UTF-8 but may contain errors, ignoring errors
may be reasonable.
If is supposed to be something else, determine what that "something
else" actually is, and use that.
hp
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