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

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 30/09/2013 14:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> On 2013-09-29, ?????????? <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ???????? 29/9/2013 10:53 ????, ??/?? Chris Angelico ????????????:
>>>
>>> You fail to understand that these code i now use was written with the
>>> help of regulars here and yes its correct.
>>
>>
>> If you're code is correct, then use it and be happy.
>>
>> There's no need to bother us if your code is correct.
>>
>
> Could this be an extremely rare case whereby the original code is 100%
> correct but the problems have been exacerbated by the many suggested patches
> given here being 100% incorrect?

Jests and barbs left aside, I believe his definition of "correct" is
"wasn't crashing". Earlier in this thread there was a hint that he'd
tightened a bare except to one specific exception. My guess is his
code wasn't correct, but one bug (overly-broad try/except) masked
another.

ChrisA