Is 'encoding is an invalid keyword' error inevitable in python 2.x?

Question

Ansi to UTF-8 using python causing error

I tried the answer there to convert ansi to utf-8.

import io

with io.open(file_path_ansi, encoding=\'latin-         


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue when I did try to write bytes to file. So my point is, bytes are already encoded. So when you use encoding keyword this leads to an error.