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

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On Sunday, 20 May 2018 08:58:32 UTC-4, Richard Damon  wrote:
> On 5/20/18 7:59 AM, bellcanadardp at gmail.com wrote:
> > On Saturday, 19 May 2018 19:03:09 UTC-4, Chris Angelico  wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 8:58 AM,  <bellcanadardp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:09:29 UTC-5, Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan  wrote:
> >>>>> It does auto-detect it as cp1252- look at the files in the traceback and
> >>>>> you'll see lib\encodings\cp1252.py. Since cp1252 seems to be the wrong
> >>>>> encoding, try opening it as utf-8 or latin1 and see if that fixes it.
> >>>> Thanks a lot ! utf-8 and latin1 were accepted !
> >>> hello i am having same issue..i believe the code is written in python 2 and i am running python 3.6..i tried at the interpreter..f =
> >>> open(filename, encoding="utf-8" and also latin-1..but then when i run my file i still get the error...also my line is at 7414..how do you find this line??...is it better to try to run the file .py in python 2??..thnxz
> >> You're responding to something from 2009.
> >>
> >> Your file is apparently not encoded the way you think it is. You'll
> >> have to figure out what it ACTUALLY is.
> >>
> >> ChrisA
> >
> > hello Chris
> > thank you for the reply, but how exactly am i supposed to find oout what is the correct encodeing??
> 
> Basically, you need to know it from some other source to be totally
> certain. This is part of the 'disaster' of 8 bit code pages.
> 
> There are a few guesses that can be done that often get you close.
> utf-8, IF it validates is almost always what the file is (unless it is
> just ASCII, where you generally never even notice the issue).
> 
> There are programs that will look at some heuristics in the file and try
> to guess. Another option is to open the file in a text editor which will
> be more forgiving and show the bad character as an error symbol, and see
> if  you can recognize what 'language' (human) the user seems to have
> been using, and guess the character encoding from that (or just remove
> the bad characters if they are just in comments/unimportant strings.)
> 
> -- 
> Richard Damon

thank you for the email reply Richard Damon
i will study all your great  guidelines

i actually got my script to function by running it in python 2.7
thanx for your kind suggestions very much

tommy