Hi , when i m using u.item to make dataframe it shows a error ?as shown below

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dff = pd.read_csv(“ml-100k/u.item”,sep =’|’)

UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xe9 in position 2892: invalid continuation byte

#2

Hello @coding123c,
It is because it by default uses the decoding method that can’t be used for .item file. Try using following approach:

#3

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