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Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError

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Date Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:46:14 +1000
Subject Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Jaroslav Dobrek
<jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com> wrote:
> My problem is solved. What I need to do is explicitly decode text when
> reading it. Then I can catch exceptions. I might do this in future
> programs.

Apologies if it's already been said (I'm only skimming this thread),
but ISTM that you want to open the file in binary mode. You'll then
get back a bytes() instead of a str(), and you can attempt to decode
it separately. You may then need to do your own division into lines
that way, though.

ChrisA

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catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-25 04:05 -0700
  Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-07-25 06:34 -0500
  Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-07-25 13:35 +0200
    Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-25 05:09 -0700
    Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-25 05:09 -0700
      Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-07-25 14:50 -0400
        Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Jaroslav Dobrek <jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com> - 2012-07-26 00:46 -0700
          Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-07-26 10:28 +0200
            Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Jaroslav Dobrek <jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com> - 2012-07-26 03:51 -0700
              Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-07-26 13:15 +0200
                Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 04:58 -0700
                Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError jaroslav.dobrek@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 04:58 -0700
              Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-07-26 14:17 +0200
              Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-07-26 14:24 +0200
          Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-07-26 19:46 +1000
          Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 03:19 -0700
      Re: catch UnicodeDecodeError Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de> - 2012-07-26 14:43 +0200

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