Python 3 UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I'm implementing this notebook on Windows with Python 3.5.3 and got the follow error on load_vectors() call. I've tried different solutions posted but none worked.

<ipython-input-86-dd4c123b0494> in load_vectors(loc)
      1 def load_vectors(loc):
      2     return (load_array(loc+'.dat'),
----> 3         pickle.load(open(loc+'_words.pkl','rb')),
      4         pickle.load(open(loc+'_idx.pkl','rb')))

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Answer 1

I solved this issue by copying and pasting the entire csv file into text and reading it with:

with open(self.path + "/review_collection.txt", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    read = f.read().splitlines()
    for row in read:
        print(row)