Showing posts with label Recommendation Systems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recommendation Systems. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2017

UnicodeDecodeError when reading CSV file in Pandas with Python 3+

Am getting the error "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xba in position 10: invalid start byte "while running the following code
import pandas as pd
dataFile='~/BX-Book-Ratings.csv'
data=pd.read_csv(dataFile,sep=";",header=0,names=["user","isbn","rating"])
Solution:
df = pd.read_csv(dataFile,sep=";",header=0,encoding = "ISO-8859-1",names=["user","isbn","rating"])