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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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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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