'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 8: invalid continuation byte code example
Example 1: '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')
Example 2: 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')
Example 3: 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')
Example 4: 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()