UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 210858: invalid start byte

Question

When I try to use pandas to open a CSV file: train = pd.read_csv('train_lending.csv'),

I get: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 210858: invalid start byte.

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 27 '22 at 20:57

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train = pd.read_csv('train_lending.csv', encoding='ISO-8859–1')

edited Aug 27 '22 at 20:57

Henry Ecker

answered Aug 26 '22 at 03:56

Katsu

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