UnicodeDecodeError when trying to read docx file

Question

Error occurs when opening docx file using python 3

When I tried to run:

file=open("jinuj.docx","r",encoding="utf-8").read()

below error occured

    319         # decode input (taking the buffer into account)
    320         data = self.buffer + input
--> 321         (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
    322         # keep undecoded input until the next call
    323         self.buffer = data[consumed:]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 11: invalid start byte

Answer 1

python-docx can open a document from a so-called file-like object . It can also save to a file-like object:

from docx import Document
f = open('jinuj.docx', 'rb')
document = Document(f)
f.close()

OR

with open('jinuj.docx', 'rb') as f:
    source_stream = StringIO(f.read())
document = Document(source_stream)
source_stream.close()

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