But you could relax this requirement by specifying a more forgiving error handler (see Python's Error Handlers docs for more options): ...

return loads (fp.read (), ^^^^^^^^^ File "D:\Program Files\python\Lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode (input,self.errors,decoding_table) [0] ...

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