UnicodeDecodeError when trying to read docx file

Question

Error occurs when opening docx file using python 3

When I tried to run:

file=open(\"jinuj.docx\",\"r\",encoding=\"utf-8\").read()

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Answer 1

python-docx can open a document from a so-called file-like object. It can also save to a file-like object:

from docx import Document
f = open('jinuj.docx', 'rb')
document = Document(f)
f.close()

OR

with open('jinuj.docx', 'rb') as f:
    source_stream = StringIO(f.read())
document = Document(source_stream)
source_stream.close()

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