UnicodeDecodeError when import json file

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I want to open a json file in python and I have the error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 64864: ordinal not in range(128)

my code is quite simple: 

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import json

with open('birdw3l2.json') as data_file:    
    data = json.load(data_file)
print(data)

Someone can help me? Thanks!

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2 Answers

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Try the following code.

import json

with open('birdw3l2.json') as data_file:    
    data = json.load(data_file).decode('utf-8')
print(data)
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You should specify your encoding format when you load your json file. like this:

 data = json.load(data_file, encoding='utf-8')

The encoding depends on your file encoding.