UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0xe2 in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

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The file is being read as a bunch of strs, but it should be unicodes. Python tries to implicitly convert, but fails. Change:

job_titles = [line.strip() for line in title_file.readlines()]

to explicitly decode the strs to unicode (here assuming UTF-8):

job_titles = [line.decode('utf-8').strip() for line in title_file.readlines()]

It could also be solved by importing the codecs module and using codecs.open rather than the built-in open.

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