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Subject: Re: Pandas' loading a CSV file problem
From: Michiel Overtoom <motoom@xs4all.nl>
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Hi Ek,

> On 22 Oct 2015, at 14:44, Ek Esawi <esawiek@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> f =3D pd.read_csv('c:/Users/EK Esawi/My Documents/Temp/GOSATemp1.csv')
> File "pandas\parser.pyx", line 1382, in pandas.parser._string_box_utf8 =
(pandas\parser.c:17655)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb1 in position =
8: invalid start byte

I guess you're on Windows and your CSV file is encoded as Windows-1252. =
Unless you tell Pandas this it'll assume your file is utf-8 encoded.

Try this:

   f =3D pd.read_csv('c:/Users/EK Esawi/My =
Documents/Temp/GOSATemp1.csv', encoding=3D'windows-1252')

Greetings,