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Guess encoding (python)
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guess_encoding.py
import chardet
def guess_encoding(file):
with open(file, 'rb') as f:
result = chardet.detect(f.read())
return result['encoding']
encoding = guess_encoding(csv_file)
df = pd.read_csv(csv_file, encoding=encoding)
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