python 3.6 decoding text from server

Question

I am running a python code on server (python 3.6). It tries to read a csv file which has this structure:

I'll    510 676 1   Speaker2
come back   727 878 3   Speaker2
and wake you    930 1196    3   Speaker2
sp  1196    1242    99  Speaker2
in twenty   1109    1401    3   Speaker2
to  1544    1631    1   Speaker2
give you    1631    1952    3   Speaker2

This piece of code:

with open(csvfile, 'r') as f:
   lines = f.readlines()

returns this error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode bytes in position 15-16: invalid continuation byte

I tried this and this but it didn't work

have you read error mesage? have you manually checked what it points to? — Marcin Orlowski, Mar 21 '18 at 16:25
Did you try `csvfile = unicode(csvfile, errors='ignore')`, before the `with open` ? — Hackerman, Mar 21 '18 at 16:44
I did. and I got: NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined [which I think its a python 3.6 problem] — user552231, Mar 21 '18 at 17:10

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '18 at 17:37

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The problem was that it wasn't a real CSV. When I saved as CSV again, it worked!

answered Mar 22 '18 at 17:37

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