python mysqldb 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f code example

Example 1: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 6148: character maps to

Add encoding:
	
	file = open(filename, encoding="utf8")

Example 2: UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 92: character maps to

file = open(filename, encoding="cp437")