“for line in…” results in UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte

Question

Here is my code,

for line in open(\'u.item\'):
#read each line

whenever I run this code it gives the following error:

Answer 1

Also worked for me, ISO 8859-1 is going to save a lot, hahaha, mainly if using Speech Recognition API's

Example:

file = open('../Resources/' + filename, 'r', encoding="ISO-8859-1");