UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xa5 in position 0: invalid start byte

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I switched this simply by defining a different codec package in the read_csv() command:

encoding = 'unicode_escape'

Eg:

import pandas as pd
data = pd.read_csv(filename, encoding= 'unicode_escape')

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