Problems opening DBF files in python

Question

I am trying to open en transform several DBF files to a dataframe. Most of them worked fine, but for one of the files I receive the error: \"UnicodeDecodeError: \'utf-8\' co

Answer 1

 from simpledbf import Dbf5
 dbf2 = Dbf5('/Users/.../TCAT_MUNICIPIOS.dbf', codec='latin')
 df2 = dbf2.to_dataframe()
 df2.head(3)