UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 377826: invalid start byte

Question

I am getting the following error while executing the below code snippet exactly at the line if uID in repo.git.log():, the problem is in repo.git.log()

Answer 1

0x92 is a smart quote(’) of Windows-1252. It simply doesn't exist in unicode, therefore it can't be decoded.

Maybe your file was edited by a Windows machine which basically caused this problem?

Answer 2

Use encoding='cp1252' will solve the issue.