Python: UnicodeDecodeError: "utf-8" codec can"t decode byte 0xa0 in position 10: invalid start byte

Question

Unable to import this file it shows an error. My code was:

import pandas as pd

a = pd.read_csv("filename.csv")

Answer 1

You have to use the encoding as latin1 to read this file as there are some special character in this file, use the below code snippet to read the file. Try this:

import pandas as pd

data=pd.read_csv("C:\\Users\\akashkumar\\Downloads\\Customers.csv",encoding='latin1')

print(data.head())

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