Answers for "unicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte"

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'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
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UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte invalid start byte

# Use 'ISO-8859-1' instead of "utf-8" for decoding
text = open(fn, 'rb').read().decode('ISO-8859-1')
Posted by: Guest on September-23-2020
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UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe7 in position 5: invalid continuation byte

pd.read_csv('ml-100k/u.item', sep='|', names=m_cols , encoding='latin-1')
Posted by: Guest on July-27-2020
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utf-8 codec can't decode byte python

# try this if you get the error utf-8 codec can't decode byte
# Assuming your file is pipe delimited otherwise remove sep='|'
pd.read_csv(r'C:pathtofile.csv', sep='|', encoding = "ISO-8859-1")
Posted by: Guest on August-12-2021

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