UnicodeDecodeError: Invalid Start Byte

I have a quick question about UnicodeDecodeError:invalid start byte. I think somewhere in my text has non-UTF-8 Character, but location of error message is the starting point of re

Solution 1:

I had the same issue and after searching for a while what i did

import sys

#Set default encoder 
sys.setdefaultencoding("ISO-8859-1")

#Then convert string to UTF-8
yourString.encode('utf-8').strip()

I hope it will be useful to someone