'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte code example
Example 1: ParserError: Error tokenizing data. C error: Expected 1 fields in line 87, saw 2
data = pd.read_csv('file1.csv', error_bad_lines=False)
Example 2: '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 3: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte invalid start byte
text = open(fn, 'rb').read().decode('ISO-8859-1')
Example 4: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte
with open(file, newline='', encoding="utf16") as MyFile:
Example 5: 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 6: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa5 in position 10: invalid start byte
with open(path, 'rb') as f:
text = f.read()