#1355 UnicodeDecodeError in Py3.2 when opening JSON file

[Anonymous]

Trying to open a JSON-file with non-ASCII characters results in a UnicodeDecodeError. The code runs fine outside Eclipse.

Setup:

Python 3.2
Eclipse 3.7 + PyDev 2.2.1
MacOS 10.6.8

pydev debugger: starting
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/eclipse/plugins/org.python.pydev.debug_2.2.1.2011071313/pysrc/pydevd.py", line 1256, in <module>
debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None)
File "/Applications/eclipse/plugins/org.python.pydev.debug_2.2.1.2011071313/pysrc/pydevd.py", line 1009, in run
pydev_imports.execfile(file, globals, locals) #execute the script
File "/Applications/eclipse/plugins/org.python.pydev.debug_2.2.1.2011071313/pysrc/_pydev_execfile.py", line 37, in execfile
exec(compile(contents+"\n", file, 'exec'), glob, loc) #execute the script

[...]

File "/Users/hmg/econ/struct-ret/src/data_management/fj11_replication/readers.py", line 44, in get_contents
return json.load(open(file_path))
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/lib/python3.2/json/__init__.py", line 259, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xcf in position 254: ordinal not in range(128)