Python utf-8 encoding error

Question

Good afternoon to all I am beginner to Python programming, I am creating a program that reads the information of a text and transcribes elsewhere.

Apparently the text was working normally on the computer, I uploaded all this information on github, when I generated this file on a new computer the following error occurred:

'utf-8' codec can’t Decode byte 0xea in position 1: invalid continuation byte.

I tried to add the some new parameters:

file = open(r'Query.txt','r',encoding='utf-8')

Yet without success.

Can someone help me?

Answer 1

maybe because your "Query.txt" file is not in utf-8?? Try replacing "encoding" with "latin-1" instead of "utf-8":

file = open(r'Query.txt','r',encoding='latin-1')