How to resolve UnicodeDecodeError with pd.read_csv?

Question

In the bottom right corner it says utf-8 codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 12: invalid start byte. What does this mean?

Traceback

Answer 1

Try to change the encoding value of read_csv like so:

df = pd.read_csv("my.csv", encoding="latin-1")

The encoding you use should be the same one used by the csv. Here is a list of Python supported encodings .