UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 8033: character maps to <undefined>

I encountered this error message when trying to use your package

(DeepECGI) C:\Users\Surface>pipreqs C:\Users\Surface\OneDrive\Documents\MATLAB\DeepECGImaging
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Surface\anaconda3\envs\DeepECGI\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "C:\Users\Surface\anaconda3\envs\DeepECGI\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Users\Surface\anaconda3\envs\DeepECGI\Scripts\pipreqs.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in
File "C:\Users\Surface\anaconda3\envs\DeepECGI\lib\site-packages\pipreqs\pipreqs.py", line 528, in main
init(args)
File "C:\Users\Surface\anaconda3\envs\DeepECGI\lib\site-packages\pipreqs\pipreqs.py", line 455, in init
candidates = get_all_imports(input_path,
File "C:\Users\Surface\anaconda3\envs\DeepECGI\lib\site-packages\pipreqs\pipreqs.py", line 115, in get_all_imports
contents = f.read()
File "C:\Users\Surface\anaconda3\envs\DeepECGI\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 8033: character maps to

Python 3.8.16

Windows 11

Start at pipreqs.py, especially init and get_all_imports, where the traceback reaches f.read(). Reproduce the command on Windows with the reported project and inspect how its source files are opened. Done means the reported non-UTF-8 input no longer produces an unhandled UnicodeDecodeError.

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