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I'm reading a json file in python which has huge amount of imported goods data with their names and taxes. I want to input an item name and search through that file to get tax of that item.

import json

with open("./Files/CD_Data.json") as file:
    #item = input("Enter item name: ")
    reader = json.load(file)
    print(reader)

But when display all data then this error comes up.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 1626249: `character maps to <undefined>`
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It is reasonable to give encoding parameter every time you open a file. Use this:

import json

with open("./Files/CD_Data.json", encoding="utf8") as file:
    #item = input("Enter item name: ")
    reader = json.load(file)
    print(reader)
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Getting JSONDecodeError: Extra data using this exact method. File loading in as TextIOWrapper