On 2016年12月22日 22時38分, subhabangalore at gmail.com wrote: >I am getting the error: >UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 15: invalid start byte The following is a reflex of mine, whenever I encounter Python 2 Unicode errors: import sys reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8') A relevant Stack Exchange thread awaits you here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/21190382/2230956