Python 3 chokes on CP-1252/ANSI reading

Question

I\'m working on a series of parsers where I get a bunch of tracebacks from my unit tests like:

  File \"c:\\Python31\\lib\\encodings\\cp1252.py\", line 23, i         


        

Answer 1

You can relax the error handling.

For instance:

f = open(filename, encoding="...", errors="replace")

Or:

f = open(filename, encoding="...", errors="ignore")

See the docs.

EDIT:

But are you certain that the problem is in reading the file? Could it be that the exception happens when something is written to the console? Check http://wiki.python.org/moin/PrintFails