charmap error with python 3.7.0a2 (works with 2.7)

[abhimanyuseth]

$ python Python 3.7.0a2 (v3.7.0a2:f7ac4fe, Oct 17 2017, 17:06:29) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

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$ python run.py Ok let's go! Traceback (most recent call last): File "run.py", line 16, in json_text = load_json_files(datasource_info, verbose=True) File "D:\My Documents\Tech\NaiveBayse\Naive-Bayes-Evening-Workshop\datasource.py", line 12, in load_json_files scraped_pages[name] = json.load(json_data) File "C:\Users\abhseth.ORADEV\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\json_init_.py", line 296, in load return loads(fp.read(), File "C:\Users\abhseth.ORADEV\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0] UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 4561288: character maps to

[tbenton]

Same issue occurred on Python 3.6.4.

[atharvanvaidya]

I guess Windows uses backslash instead of forward slash. So try to replace the code at line number 11 of run.py with: datasource_info = [('newyorktimes', 'data\nyt_discussions.json'), ('motherjones', 'data\motherjones_discussions.json'), ('breitbart', 'data\breitbart_discussions.json')]