UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xdb in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

When I am loading a file using pickle.load at that time I am facing this error.

with open("tfidf_vectorizer", mode='r+b') as handle:                            
    tfidf_vectorizer = pickle.load(handle)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xdb in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

why is it that your file tfidf_vectorizer has no extension. Shouldn't it be something like tfidf_vectorizer.json or something like that @KlausD. — Clock Slave
– Clock Slave, Commented Feb 16, 2018 at 4:58

Rakesh · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-16 08:03:19Z

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Try setting an encoding when reading the file.

Ex:

with open("tfidf_vectorizer", mode='r+b', encoding='utf-8') as handle:                            
    tfidf_vectorizer = pickle.load(handle)

answered Feb 16, 2018 at 8:03

Rakesh

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