UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 7240: character maps to

Question

I am student doing my master thesis. As part of my thesis, I am working with python. I am reading a log file of .csv format and writing the ext

Answer 1

with open('input.tsv','rb') as f:
for ln in f:
    decoded=False
    line=''
    for cp in ('cp1252', 'cp850','utf-8','utf8'):
        try:
            line = ln.decode(cp)
            decoded=True
            break
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            pass
    if decoded:
        # use 'line'