SyntaxError: invalid decimal literal

[ertiaM]

File "1_R1.fq", line 1 @LH00209:63:225W5FLT3:2:1101:1268:1048 1:N:0:NGAAGAGA+GACACGCT ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
i got a problem when i use my fastq data with such sequence identifier, and i fixed it by changing the following code
if line.startswith("@".encode('utf-8')): into
if line.startswith("@"):
just for a notice