f = open(path,'r',encoding='utf8')
This is the code I'm trying to run but it outputs 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte as the error. What might be the reason for this?
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khelwood
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Maybe your file isn't utf8-encoded. – khelwood Jul 27 '20 at 22:43
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1Does this answer your question? [error UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42339876/error-unicodedecodeerror-utf-8-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xff-in-position-0-in) – Trenton McKinney Jul 27 '20 at 22:46
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Did you check the encoding of your file in `path`? – np8 Jul 27 '20 at 23:51
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1@TrentonMcKinney Yes, the link you provided helped. Thanks a lot. – Jayakrishnan Jul 29 '20 at 17:13
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Try changing your encoding to utf-8, and see if that fixes it. Otherwise, the file might not be encoded in utf-8.
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