Fix: Add encoding parameter to resolve UnicodeDecodeError #3

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blu3-bird wants to merge 1 commit into thepycoach:main from blu3-bird:fix-Unicode-Decode-Error

blu3-bird commented Nov 21, 2025

Problem

The notebook fails with UnicodeDecodeError when reading laptop_price.csv because the file contains Latin-1 encoded characters.

Fixes #2

Changes

Added encoding='latin1' parameter to pd.read_csv()

Testing

✅ Verified CSV loads successfully with the encoding parameter

Environment

Python 3.13


          Fix: encoding parameter to read_csv

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