UnicodeDecodeError utf-8 codec can t decode byte 0xeb in position 8 unexpected end of data

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country= pd.read_csv("C:\\Edureka\\Python\\02_toupload\\worldcities.csv",index_col = 0)

Giving me 

UnicodeDecodeError: "utf-8" codec can"t decode byte 0xeb in position 8: unexpected end of data

How to fix this?

Jul 15, 2019 in Python by Reena
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thanks a lot, it helped

1 answer to this question.

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To read this dataset use encoding as latin1 below is the reference you can use:

data=ps.read_csv(r"C:\Users\akashkumar\Downloads\02_toupload_wub8x\02_toupload\worldcities.csv",encoding='latin1')
answered Jul 15, 2019 by Rishi

Thanks, its helpful to use

encoding='latin1'
Thank u very much sir , It made my day .

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