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UnicodeDecodeError:
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That's fine if can go into file and fix it.
Here some way to get around problems.
>>> s = b'2018-03-26,HQ Service Center,Handset,Samsung Galaxy S9+ and Charger \xffBlack,1,Sales\r\n'
>>> s.decode('utf-8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 68: invalid start byte
'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 68: invalid start byte

>>> # Try other codec
>>> s.decode('latin-1')
'2018-03-26,HQ Service Center,Handset,Samsung Galaxy S9+ and Charger ÿBlack,1,Sales\r\n'

>>> # Just ignore error
>>> s.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore')
'2018-03-26,HQ Service Center,Handset,Samsung Galaxy S9+ and Charger Black,1,Sales\r\n'

>>> # Replace with fill in(?) where error is
>>> s.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
'2018-03-26,HQ Service Center,Handset,Samsung Galaxy S9+ and Charger �Black,1,Sales\r\n'
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Messages In This Thread
UnicodeDecodeError: - by garikhgh0 - Apr-10-2018, 07:05 AM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by Gribouillis - Apr-10-2018, 08:16 AM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by garikhgh0 - Apr-10-2018, 09:47 AM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by Gribouillis - Apr-10-2018, 10:00 AM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by garikhgh0 - Apr-10-2018, 10:32 AM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by Gribouillis - Apr-10-2018, 11:40 AM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by garikhgh0 - Apr-10-2018, 12:01 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by Gribouillis - Apr-10-2018, 12:22 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by snippsat - Apr-10-2018, 12:40 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by garikhgh0 - Apr-10-2018, 01:02 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by Gribouillis - Apr-10-2018, 01:32 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by snippsat - Apr-10-2018, 01:51 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by garikhgh0 - Apr-10-2018, 01:54 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by garikhgh0 - May-16-2018, 01:46 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by snippsat - May-16-2018, 03:09 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by PythonGuy888 - May-31-2018, 03:35 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by PythonGuy888 - May-31-2018, 05:09 PM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by garikhgh0 - Jun-04-2018, 05:41 AM
RE: UnicodeDecodeError: - by volcano63 - Jun-04-2018, 08:41 PM

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