Does reading files in Python 3 with the kwarg errors='ignore' skip the character or the entire file when it can't read something that's encoded?

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It to me there should be some sort of consequence for errors when reading a file that may or may not be in an particular encoding...for instance here I was advised to use the kwarg errors='ignore' to ignore errors when reading a file:

f = open(notesFile, 'r', encoding='utf8', errors='ignore') # errors='ignore' seems to clear up any encoding issues (I just hope it only skips characters...)

But I'm uncertain if the entire file is skipped or just that character in the file when being read...

easy to verify -- what have you tried? – anthony sottile Jan 22 '19 at 04:05 — anthony sottile, Jan 22 '19 at 04:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '19 at 03:56

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It only ignores the encoding errors in the file, not the entire file (Ignore errors handler)

answered Jan 22 '19 at 03:56

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Does reading files in Python 3 with the kwarg errors='ignore' skip the character or the entire file when it can't read something that's encoded?

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