UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 3131: invalid start byte

Question

I am trying to read twitter data from json file using python 2.7.12.

Code I used is such:

    import json
    import sys
    reload(sys)
    sys.setd         


        

Answer 1

In my case(mac os), there was .DS_store file in my data folder which was a hidden and auto generated file and it caused the issue. I was able to fix the problem after removing it.