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Python Data Science Basics Describing Data Loading Raw Data

Posted by B Madhusudan
B Madhusudan
86 Points

Using Anaconda to do this and get : TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function

After googling, I see people using: import io

and then I switch my statement to: with io.open(filename, encoding='utf-8') as tsvin:

but now I get this error: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in position 21: ordinal not in range(128)

1 Answer

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Kenneth Love
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I bet you're using the 2.7 distribution of Anaconda. We use only Python 3 here at Treehouse. Check out the 3.4 version of Anaconda and I bet the encoding keyword will work fine.

Pau Diaz Gallifa
Pau Diaz Gallifa
1,616 Points
Pau Diaz Gallifa
Pau Diaz Gallifa
1,616 Points

I have the same problem but I can't install anaconda for python3.4. Should I uninstall Anaconda before installing the new version? in that case, how does it works?

thank you!