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I am new to Python, I am trying to read csv file using below script.
Past=pd.read_csv("C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/Python/Past.csv",encoding='utf-8') But, getting error "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 35: invalid start byte", Please help me to know issue here, I used encoding in script thought it will resolve error.
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The Python "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte" occurs when we specify an incorrect encoding when decoding a bytes object. To solve the error, specify the correct encoding, e.g. utf-16 or open the file in binary mode ( rb or wb ).
0x96 is in binary 10010110, and any byte matching the pattern 10XXXXXX (0x80 to 0xBF) can only be a second or subsequent byte in a UTF-8 encoding. Hence the stream is either not UTF-8 or else is corrupted.
The UnicodeDecodeError normally happens when decoding an str string from a certain coding. Since codings map only a limited number of str strings to unicode characters, an illegal sequence of str characters will cause the coding-specific decode() to fail.
This happens because you chose the wrong encoding.
Since you are working on a Windows machine, just replacing
Past=pd.read_csv("C:/Users/.../Past.csv",encoding='utf-8') with
Past=pd.read_csv("C:/Users/.../Past.csv",encoding='cp1252') should solve the problem.
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