json.load() function give strange 'UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode' error

Question

I\'m trying to read a JSON file I have saved in a text file using the python .loads() function. I will later parse the JSON to obtain a specific value.

I keep getting th

Answer 1

Specify the encoding in the open call.

# encoding is a keyword argument
open("/Users/.../KanyeAllSongs.txt", encoding='utf-8') as data_file:
    data=json.load(data_file)