invalid continuation byte while using CSV file

Asked May 29 '20 at 16:19

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When i tried opening a basic csv file with the below code I see the below error

File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 2587: invalid continuation byte

This is the code is wrote

import csv
f=open("/Users/local/Documents/practice.csv",'r')
c=csv.reader(f)
for row in c:
    print(row[1])

asked May 29 '20 at 16:19

Nikhil

Have you seen this [post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5552555/unicodedecodeerror-invalid-continuation-byte) and this [library](https://pypi.org/project/chardet/) ? – Balaji Ambresh May 29 '20 at 16:22
Thanks for the help Balaji. I have installed the package.But still not able to figure out how to use it – Nikhil May 29 '20 at 17:16
Can you give me a link to download the file? – Balaji Ambresh May 29 '20 at 18:20
It worked now . I saved the file as csv.utf-8 – Nikhil May 29 '20 at 19:54
Ok. Good to know. – Balaji Ambresh May 29 '20 at 20:09

invalid continuation byte while using CSV file

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