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Chapter 10

Updates

Some of the text files from Project Gutenberg are now encoded as utf-8. This can result in a UnicodeDecodeError when trying to open the file. This can be addressed by adding an argument when we call open(), which explictly tells Python which encoding to use when opening the file. For example, in the program alice.py on pages 203-204, the first lines of the program should look like this:

filename = 'alice_new.txt'

try:
    with open(filename, encoding='utf-8') as f_obj:
        contents = f_obj.read()

The encoding argument should be added to the open() calls in word_count.py as well on pages 205-206.