Codec issue while reading txt file via Python

Question

Having an issue while trying to open .txt file (which contains only pure text in it) with Python 3.6 using simple open () approach:

with open('3003.txt', 'r') as myfile:
    data=myfile.read()

It gives the errortrace like that:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 182: invalid continuation byte

I used couple of googled approaches but they dont solve the deal. What should be done to solve this?

Answer 1

You can use Python 3 open() style file handler which streams bytestrings:

open('3003.txt', 'rb') as myfile:
    data=myfile.read()

Note the 'b' meaning binary mode