UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 10442: character maps to <undefined>

[bellcanadardp at gmail.com]

On Friday, 8 June 2018 07:42:34 UTC-4, Steven D'Aprano  wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:35:12 -0700, bellcanadardp wrote:
> 
> > hello steven are you there??
> > i posted the full error message...
> 
> No you didn't.
> 
> I saw your post, and ignored it, because you didn't follow instructions. 
> I told you we need to see the *full* traceback, starting from the line 
> beginning "Traceback". You only posted the end of the traceback.
> 
> I told you we needed to see the actual line of code you are trying to 
> run. You didn't show us the line of code you are trying to run.
> 
> We're not mind-readers. We can't fix code that we can't see, giving 
> errors from a line you won't tell us, using a file we don't have.
> 
> Please read this before replying:
> 
> http://sscce.org/
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- 
> Steven D'Aprano
> "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing
> it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson
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Traceback (most recent call last):

File "createIndex.py", line 132, in <module>
c.createindex()

File "creatIndex.py", line 102, in createIndex
pagedict=self.parseCollection()

File "createIndex.py", line 47, in parseCollection
for line in self.collFile:

File "C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode

return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap'codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 7414: character maps to <undefined> 
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