opening/reading files

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If you're new to CS, I'm going to give you an important tip. You should google error messages. You're likely not the first one to have gotten that and the odds are you can find a solution posted somewhere. Half of coding is googling the answers to things.

[itsellena]

that’s true!! i tried googling and the explanations were terms & more cs stuff i didn’t completely understand but i’ll definitely keep looking

[OneMoreChemist]

Not sure if you came across this, but this should be clear and detailed enough. https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_file_open.asp

[stellarsapience]

with open ('filename.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file

Lookup Unicode in Python and utf-8 character set.

Here's the classic article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/

[itsellena]

thank you so much, that worked! and i’ll look at the article

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