What s the right way to concatenate files and appending the New Line character in Python Text or binary mode

Question

Trying to concatenate multiple files in a root to a single file. These are the problems I face:

• When I've opened each textfile in text file mode the output file shows strange characters (gibberish)
• When I've opened each textfile in binary mode the output file was corrected.

I'm using Python3 here, so what am I missing?

Answer 1

It seems like you're using the wrong encoding for the file in this case. 

If you write a file in one encoding and read it in a different encoding, you will end up getting nonsensical characters made up of the same bytes being interpreted in the wrong way IMHO.

Hope this helps!