'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 135-136: invalid continuation byte jupiter 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: SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 15-16: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
"c:\\user\\path\\to\\file"
r"c:\user\path\to\file
# this happens because \u is the default escape code for unicode and is fixed
# either by using double slashes (no \u anymore) or converting to raw string