UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

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I am using python = 3.6 Can't able to get solution for this ? Can anyone help me to get a solution for this issue!

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It means that the string you are trying to decode is not encoded using ascii. Try using different decoding format e.g. utf-8 or ask for the original encoding that was used, — Pawan Sharma, May 19 '21 at 08:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '21 at 08:41

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You can use b'\xef or some string here'.decode("utf-8", "ignore") to simply ignore such an error. Another way of doing it is to use a try-catch block.

And either way, you'd probably need to examine Python Docs on Unicode.

answered May 19 '21 at 08:41

Moenupa WANG

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Thanks for giving this solution! – Kalaiselvi May 25 '21 at 13:55

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

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