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

Please try to add

encoding='unicode_escape'

This will help. Worked for me. Also, make sure you're using the correct delimiter and column names.

You can start with loading just 1000 rows to load the file quickly.