Answers for "ERROR - 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte"

'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x85 in position 715: invalid start byte

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv(filename, encoding= 'unicode_escape')

Posted by: Guest on March-19-2020

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb0 in position 1968: invalid start byte

pd.read_csv("C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/Python/Past.csv",encoding='cp1252')

Posted by: Guest on October-26-2020

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa5 in position 10: invalid start byte

#use rb over r
with open(path, 'rb') as f:
  text = f.read()

Posted by: Guest on August-24-2020

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