UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 550: character maps to <undefined>
#Filename Read_file.py #Author Steve Morse #Date 5/30/2020 # Cleaned up 9/30/2020 x=" " # process_lines DID NOT WORK AT FIRST # I had fogotten that the EOL (end of line) charcter/values were # still attached to the line # .strip() got rid of them, no problem # All this does is print out the line. def process_lines(line, count): x="" print(count) #print(line) line2=line.strip() # This strips the offending EOL chars #print(line2) # This is my code for finishing the loop if line2=='Order Number:': x='' print(line2) print('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx') x=input('Enter to continue, X to finish') if x=='x': return 'x' if x=='X': return 'x' print("nn") return x #========================================================= Main Routine #Orders is a BIG file encoded UTF-8 #Orders1 is a SMALL file encoded UTF-8 (1st 5 entries of Orders) #Initially I had an error # 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 : invalid continuation byte error # # This was solver with the following: # encoding="UTF-8" counter=0 with open('orders1.txt', 'r',encoding="UTF-8") as f: for line in f: counter +=1 xx=process_lines(line, counter) if xx=='x': break #========================================================= # So I know it has finished print("nnn========================================nFinished")
