Python (nltk) - UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte

Question

I\'m new to NLTK. I\'m getting this error and I\'ve searched around for encoding/decoding and specifically the UnicodeDecodeError but this error seems specific to the NLTK s

Answer 1

try this... NLTK 3.0.1 with Python 2.7.x

import io
f = io.open(txtFile, 'rU', encoding='utf-8')