Python getting error "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xad in position 10: invalid start byte"

Asked May 25 '19 at 23:33

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I am trying to download a csv file with the following code:

import requests

url = 'https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/sheets/mhtip.zip'

res = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)

csv = res.content.decode('utf-8')
print(csv)

but I get this error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xad in position 10: invalid start byte

After searching google with this error, I tried this answer:

import requests

url = 'https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/sheets/mhtip.zip'

res = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)

csv = res.content.encode('utf-8').strip()
print(csv)

But get:

AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'

What am I missing here?

asked May 25 '19 at 23:33

Lord Elrond

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The url provides a zip file havind **several** csv files. What to you want to do ? Read one of them ? – Alexandre B. May 25 '19 at 23:41
@AlexandreB. I am trying to "download them", but thought I could print their contents to terminal – Lord Elrond May 25 '19 at 23:42
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I think that answers my question though, I need to "unzip" them first. thanks – Lord Elrond May 25 '19 at 23:43
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Glad to help you, cheers :) – Alexandre B. May 25 '19 at 23:43
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please check [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/14260592/8353711). It is already answered. – shaik moeed May 25 '19 at 23:46

Python getting error "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xad in position 10: invalid start byte"

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