Python3 reads utf8 files

For the record, forget about Orz every time

The default is not to read files in utf8, so an error message like this will be sprayed

File “/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py”, line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 29: ordinal not in range(128)

The solution is to add encoding=”utf-8” when opening the file.

 with open(os.path.join("./", inputfile), "r", encoding="utf-8") as my_file:
    tree_text = my_file.read()

Original link: Phanix's Blog