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I have a CSV file and when I try to read it in Python 2.7, it makes following error.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

This is my code so far,

with open('train.csv', 'rb') as csvfile: reader = csv.DictReader(csvfile) for row in reader: text=(row['Descript']) emotion = (row['Category'])

I found many solution from this site like How to fix: "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte", UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 1 But they are not able to fix my error. Can anyone help me.

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    Why are you reading the file in binary mode? Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 5:19
  • If i used 'r' instead of 'rb', it also make the same error. Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 5:20
  • this might help: stackoverflow.com/questions/23917729/… and: python2 or python3? then one or two of your offending input-lines might be helpful for people wanting to help. Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 5:36
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    could have been easier if you wrote the csv with str.encode('utf-8') Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 5:45
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    Use Python 3, if possible. If not possible, use it anyways. Or unicodecsv Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 5:46
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