Syntax Error: positional argument follows keyword argument

Question

 ratings_list = [i.strip().split("::") for i in open(encoding="utf8", 'ratings.csv', 'r').readlines()]

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Input In [4]
    ratings_list = [i.strip().split("::") for i in open(encoding="utf8", 'ratings.csv', 'r').readlines()]
                                                                                           ^
SyntaxError: positional argument follows keyword argument

Answer 1

Try

open('output.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8')

keyword-arguments like encoding='utf-8' (encoding is the keyword) must not be succeeded by positional arguments (which are assigned in the function call by the position in the parameter list).