‘Utf-8’code can not decode byte 0xcd in position 0

Question

I am a newbie to python and data analysis, when I try to read .csv files by pandas, I got the information as below.

‘Utf-8’ code can’t decode byte 0xcd in position 0: invalid continuation byte.

This is not the first time I got this problem, unfortunately I forgot how to solve it. Could someone help me?

my code:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv(‘C:/Users/36373748/files/zllr.csv’)

Answer 1

Thanks everyone! I tried the pd.read_csv commend with encoding =‘gbk’, and it finally worked!