“for line in…” results in UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte

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“for line in…” results in UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte

Here is my code,

for line in open('u.item'):

# Read each line

Whenever I run this code it gives the subsequent error:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 2892: invalid continuation byte

I tried to unravel this and add an additional parameter in open(). The code looks like:

for line in open('u.item', encoding='utf-8'):

# Read each line

But again it gives an equivalent error. What should I do then?

python3-x python

4 years ago by vishaljlf39

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**akshay1995** · Answer 1 · 2021-05-19T11:19:57

The following also worked for me. ISO 8859-1 is going to save a lot, hahaha - mainly if using Speech Recognition APIs.

Example:



file = open('../Resources/' + filename, 'r', encoding="ISO-8859-1");

**sandhya6gczb** · Answer 2 · 2021-05-24T12:01:34

The encoding was "ISO-8859-1", so replacing open("u.item", encoding="utf-8") with open('u.item', encoding = "ISO-8859-1") will solve the problem.

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“for line in…” results in UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte

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