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I am trying to read a pandas file - Balaji - Oct-08-2019
Hi,
while reading a csv file i get a error like this
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 127: invalid start byte
How to clear this error
RE: I am trying to read a pandas file - Larz60+ - Oct-08-2019
what does the open statement look like?
usually you can use something like:
with open(filename, 'r', encoding="UTF-8"):
... if that doesn't help, try:with open(filename, 'r', encoding="ISO-8859-1"):
...