UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xa5 in position 0: invalid start byte

To solve UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xa5 in position 0: invalid start byte follow any of the below methods.

Error log

Traceback (most recent call last):
 UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 2: invalid start byte

How to solve UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xa5 in position 0: invalid start byte ?

Follow the below solutions as per the requirement.

If you are using read_csv() the use the below code snippet.

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv(file_name, encoding= 'unicode_escape')

If you are reading a file using with open(file_name,mode) then use:

with open(path, 'rb') as f:
  text = f.read()

The issue occurs because the dictionary contains a non-ascii character that cannot be encoded or decoded. To avoid this error, encode such strings with the encode() function as follows (if an is a string containing a non-ascii character):

file.encode('utf-8').strip()

Hope the above solutions works.

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