UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte, while reading csv file in pandas

Question

I know similar questions has been asked already I have seen all of them and tried but of little help. I am using OSX 10.11 El Capitan, python3.6., virtual environment, tried

Answer 1

Can you try using codecs

import codecs
with codecs.open("destinations.csv", "r",encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as file_dat:
     destinations = pd.read_csv(file_data))