Python: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte

Question

I am fetching data from a catalog and it\'s giving data in bytes format.

Bytes data:

b\'\\x80\\x00\\x00\\x00\\n\\x00\\x00%\\x83\\xa0\\x08\\x01\\x00\\         


        

Answer 1

You can try ignoring the non-readable blocks.

blobs.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')

It's not a great solution but the way you're generating the byte object has some issues. Maybe, utf-8 is not the proper encoding for your data.