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                Encoding in Python, once and for all
              
          
    Encoding in Python, once and for all

Reference
You've all had the following mistake:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'machine' codec can't decode character 'trucmuche' in position x: ordinal not in range(z)
And then, to get out of it, you suffered a lot.

  
## gitSearchLargeFiles.py
#! /usr/bin/env python3

sizeLimit = 500*1024 # bytes

import subprocess
import sys

def execute(shellCmd):
    return subprocess.check_output(shellCmd, shell=True, encoding='utf8')
	#! /usr/bin/env python3

	sizeLimit = 500*1024 # bytes

	import subprocess
	import sys

	def execute(shellCmd):
	return subprocess.check_output(shellCmd, shell=True, encoding='utf8')