UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xcc in position 3: invalid continuation byte

I got the following error

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 51: invalid continuation byte

This was because I made changes to the file and its encoding. You could also try to change the encoding of file to utf-8 using some code or nqq editor in ubuntu as it provides directory option to change encoding. If problem remains then try to undo all the changes made to the file or change the directory.

Hope this helps

Copy the code, open a new .py file and enter code and save.

I had this same issue recently. This was what I did import pandas as pd data = pd.read_csv(filename, encoding= 'unicode_escape')