title: load .json into python; UnicodeDecodeError
body: <p>I am trying to load a json file into python with no success. I have been googling a solution for the past few hours and just cannot seem to get it to load. I have tried to load it using the same <code>json.load('filename')</code> function that has worked for everyone. I keep getting :
  <code>&quot;UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in postion 124: invalid continuation byte&quot;</code></p>
  <p>Here is the code I am using</p>
  <pre><code>import json
  json_data = open('myfile.json')
  for line in json_data:
      data = json.loads(line) &lt;--I get an error at this. 
  </code></pre>
  <p>Here is a sample line from my file</p>
  <pre><code>{&quot;topic&quot;:&quot;security&quot;,&quot;question&quot;:&quot;Putting the Biba-LaPadula Mandatory Access Control Methods to Practise?&quot;,&quot;excerpt&quot;:&quot;Text books on database systems always refer to the two Mandatory Access Control models; Biba for the Integrity objective and Bell-LaPadula for the Secrecy or Confidentiality objective.\n\nText books ...\r\n        &quot;}
  </code></pre>
  <p>What is my error if this seems to have worked for everyone in every example I have googled?</p>