utf-8 codec can't decode byte

It's an encoding error - so if it's a unicode string, this ought to fix it: text.encode("windows-...

with open('text.txt', 'r') as f: b_str = f.read() print b_str.decode('utf-8') # 自行判斷標準輸出編碼 print ...

This function returns the bytes object. If we don't provide encoding, “utf-8” encoding is used as...