UnicodeDecodeError when reading CSV file in Pandas with Python

Question

I\'m running a program which is processing 30,000 similar files. A random number of them are stopping and producing this error...

File "C:\\Importer\\src         


        

Answer 1

Try changing the encoding. In my case, encoding = "utf-16" worked.

df = pd.read_csv("file.csv",encoding='utf-16')