<p>Is there any way to preprocess text files and skip these characters?</p> <pre class="prettyprint"><code>UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 1395: invalid start byte </code></pre>

<p>Try this:</p> <pre class="prettyprint"><code>str.decode('utf-8',errors='ignore') </code></pre>

unicode decode error: how to skip invalid characters [duplicate]

Is there any way to preprocess text files and skip these characters?

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 1395: invalid start byte

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asked Nov 28 '22 14:11

Try this:

str.decode('utf-8',errors='ignore')

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answered Dec 05 '22 13:12

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