UnicodeDecodeError, invalid continuation byte

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I had the same error when I tried to open a CSV file by pandas.read_csv
method.

The solution was change the encoding to latin-1:

pd.read_csv('ml-100k/u.item', sep='|', names=m_cols , encoding='latin-1')

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