UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xab in position 289: invalid start byte

[MahadevSV]

Hi, am getting error while loading the files into dataframe.
Please advice on this.
Here is the code and error:

Read and add data from file to a list

i=0
for f in labelled_files:
data_list.append((f,label_names[label_index[i]],Path(f).read_text()))
i += 1

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UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
2 i=0
3 for f in labelled_files:
----> 4 data_list.append((f,label_names[label_index[i]],Path(f).read_text()))
5 i += 1

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/pathlib.py in read_text(self, encoding, errors)
1195 """
1196 with self.open(mode='r', encoding=encoding, errors=errors) as f:
-> 1197 return f.read()
1198
1199 def write_bytes(self, data):

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/codecs.py in decode(self, input, final)
319 # decode input (taking the buffer into account)
320 data = self.buffer + input
--> 321 (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
322 # keep undecoded input until the next call
323 self.buffer = data[consumed:]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xab in position 289: invalid start byte

[gocen]

this worked for me
data_list.append((f,label_names[label_index[i]],Path(f).read_text(encoding='cp1252')))