Unicode Issue and Fix

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('score.csv')

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UnicodeDecodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)

<ipython-input-2-aee192733216> in <module>()
----> 1 df = pd.read_csv('score.csv')


~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py in parser_f(filepath_or_buffer, sep, delimiter, header, names, index_col, usecols, squeeze, prefix, mangle_dupe_cols, dtype, engine, converters, true_values, false_values, skipinitialspace, skiprows, skipfooter, nrows, na_values, keep_default_na, na_filter, verbose, skip_blank_lines, parse_dates, infer_datetime_format, keep_date_col, date_parser, dayfirst, iterator, chunksize, compression, thousands, decimal, lineterminator, quotechar, quoting, doublequote, escapechar, comment, encoding, dialect, tupleize_cols, error_bad_lines, warn_bad_lines, delim_whitespace, low_memory, memory_map, float_precision)
    700                     skip_blank_lines=skip_blank_lines)
    701 
--> 702         return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
    703 
    704     parser_f.__name__ = name


~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py in _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
    427 
    428     # Create the parser.
--> 429     parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, **kwds)
    430 
    431     if chunksize or iterator:


~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py in __init__(self, f, engine, **kwds)
    893             self.options['has_index_names'] = kwds['has_index_names']
    894 
--> 895         self._make_engine(self.engine)
    896 
    897     def close(self):


~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py in _make_engine(self, engine)
   1120     def _make_engine(self, engine='c'):
   1121         if engine == 'c':
-> 1122             self._engine = CParserWrapper(self.f, **self.options)
   1123         else:
   1124             if engine == 'python':


~/anaconda3/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers.py in __init__(self, src, **kwds)
   1851         kwds['usecols'] = self.usecols
   1852 
-> 1853         self._reader = parsers.TextReader(src, **kwds)
   1854         self.unnamed_cols = self._reader.unnamed_cols
   1855 


pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.__cinit__()


pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._get_header()


UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

# You can see the above message saying that the utf-8 can't decode the current entries. We can try with ISO

df = pd.read_csv('score.csv', encoding = 'ISO-8859-1')

df