spyder unicode decode error in startup

Question

I was using spyder-ide while parsing a tumblr page with the permission of the author, and at some point everything just crashed. Even my linux system had freezed. Well, to c

Answer 1

Well here is how I solved the issue.
l opened this: spyderlib/userconfig.py
and changed this: self.read(self.filename(), encoding='utf-8')
to this: self.read(self.filename(), encoding='latin-1')
It gave me a Warning: File contains no section headers but started spyder anyway. After that, I closed spyder, opened the terminal and entered spyder --reset then restarted spyder, it seems to work now.
Here is what you should not do at all costs for this problem: thinkering with these, I learned my lesson the hard way:

python3.5/configparser.py
python3.5/codecs.py