Python: Error on Module Run for File Conversion

[AjAlien]

Greetings,

 

I am encountering an error upon running a script which allows users to select multiple viscosity (.visz) files to convert to OpenVPN (.ovpn) files.

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Name/Desktop/test.py", line 18, in <module>
    for line in f:
  File "C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 45: character maps to <undefined>

 

 

 

[Azgoth 2]

I haven't looked at the file, but I run into errors like this from time to time.  Try changing all of your open() functions to include the encoding="UTF8" argument.  Python says it opens with UTF-8 encoding by default, but I find that sometimes not specifying the encoding causes errors like this, and specifying the file encoding often solves the issue for me.

 

Also, just as a note, I recommend using the with context manager keyword for dealing with files.  It helps protect against weird things happening that might accidentally cause the file to be left open, which can sometimes cause issues further down a program.