Python Pandas in colab:UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd3 in position 0: invalid continuation byteUnicodeDecodeError:

Question

guys i have been trying to load some datasets from kaggle which has been downloaded already.

hist_trans = pd.read_csv('historical_transactions.csv')

new_trans = pd.read_csv('new_merchant_transactions.csv')


train = pd.read_csv('train.csv', parse_dates=['first_active_month'])

test = pd.read_csv('test.csv', parse_dates=['first_active_month'])

And i had this error UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd3 in position 0: invalid continuation byte

Answer 1

Try encoding option in read_csv like below.

read_csv('file', encoding = "utf-8")

or

read_csv('file', encoding = "ISO-8859-1")