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

For this encoding error

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

or other like that, you just have to open the database file with .json extension and change the encoding to UTF-8 (for exemple in VScode, you can change it in right-bottom nav-bar) and save the file...

Now run

 $ git status

you'll have something like this result

 On branch master
 Changes not staged for commit:
   (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
   (use "git restore ..." to discard changes in working directory)
        modified:   store/dumps/store.json
   (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed)
        .gitignore

 no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

or something like this one

On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git restore --staged ..." to unstage)
        modified:   store/dumps/store.json
Untracked files:
  (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed)
        .gitignore

for the first case, you just have to do this one

$ git add store/dumps/

the second case don't need this previous part...

Now, for the two cases, you have to commit the changes with

$ git commit -m "launching to production"

the console will return you a message informed you for the adds and changes...

You have to build log for the app again with

$ git push heroku master

(for heroku users)

after the build, you just have to load the database again with

heroku run python manage.py loaddata store/dumps/store.json

it will install the objects./.

excuses for my english level !!!