Thread: Unicode decode error
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Old 10-02-2009, 10:25 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Python 3 wouldn't help with this. This error involves the decoding of the files contents. In python 3 they would simply be the bytes data type and would still need to be decoded.
Don't these UnicodeDecode errors usually result from encoding conversion or encoding mixing? All such errors disappeared in pacify when I switched to Python 3.

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