Pandas Merge Error

[Chamartin3]

Hello, I have a few days learning from your videos and all the exercises are really cool. I am now exploring the exercises of data merge. But when I run the notebook i have an error and i don't know how to solve it.

This is the script I am trying to run.
import pandas as pd
movie_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/justmarkham/DAT8/master/data/u.item'
movie_cols = ['movie_id', 'title']
movies = pd.read_table(movie_url, sep='|', header=None, names=movie_cols, usecols=[0, 1])
movies.head()

This is the output.

UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_tokens()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_with_dtype()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._string_convert()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers._string_box_utf8()

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 3: invalid continuation byte

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
1 movie_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/justmarkham/DAT8/master/data/u.item'
2 movie_cols = ['movie_id', 'title']
----> 3 movies = pd.read_table(movie_url, sep='|', header=None, names=movie_cols, usecols=[0, 1])
4 movies.head()

c:\users\omar\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\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, 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, escapechar, comment, encoding, dialect, tupleize_cols, error_bad_lines, warn_bad_lines, skipfooter, doublequote, delim_whitespace, low_memory, memory_map, float_precision)
676 skip_blank_lines=skip_blank_lines)
677
--> 678 return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
679
680 parser_f.name = name

c:\users\omar\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
444
445 try:
--> 446 data = parser.read(nrows)
447 finally:
448 parser.close()

c:\users\omar\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in read(self, nrows)
1034 raise ValueError('skipfooter not supported for iteration')
1035
-> 1036 ret = self._engine.read(nrows)
1037
1038 # May alter columns / col_dict

c:\users\omar\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py in read(self, nrows)
1846 def read(self, nrows=None):
1847 try:
-> 1848 data = self._reader.read(nrows)
1849 except StopIteration:
1850 if self._first_chunk:

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.read()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_low_memory()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_rows()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_column_data()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_tokens()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_with_dtype()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._string_convert()

pandas_libs\parsers.pyx in pandas._libs.parsers._string_box_utf8()

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 3: invalid continuation byte

[justmarkham]

Maybe try specifying an encoding for read_table?