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Wednesday, 13 November 2019

Python reading file error - 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte

When reading in a file and getting errors such as example:

'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 2897: invalid start byte

Add errors='ignore' as per the following example:

 with open(fname,"r", errors='ignore') as fo:

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