UnicodeDecodeError issue

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Sep 1 06:51:10 EDT 2013


On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
> Your file mode is 'w' which will wipe out anything written earlier.  Yet
> if the exception does not happen, the file will still contain error(s)
> from some earlier run.  You should open (and truncate) the file before
> the first use, then use the same handle in each exception at which you
> want to record any information.

Hmm, I'd go the other way, and append to the file every time there's
an error - otherwise, one successful page load will wipe out the error
from a previous one. But I agree that the inconsistency is not helping
him.

ChrisA



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