'str' object has no attribute 'decode' in Python3

Question

I\'ve some problem with \"decode\" method in python 3.3.4. This is my code:

for lines in open(\'file\',\'r\'):
    decodedLine = lines.decode(\'ISO-8859-1\')         


        

Answer 1

This works for me smoothly to read Chinese text in Python 3.6. First, convert str to bytes, and then decode them.

for l in open('chinese2.txt','rb'):
    decodedLine = l.decode('gb2312')
    print(decodedLine)