UnicodeDecodeError
Built-in ExceptionPython 2.0+Intermediate
Raised when decoding bytes to a string fails
Quick Info
- Documentation
- Official Docs
- Python Version
- 2.0+
Learn by Difficulty
Quick Example
python
# Triggering and catching UnicodeDecodeError try: b"\xff".decode("ascii") except UnicodeDecodeError as e: print(f"Caught UnicodeDecodeError: {e}") print(f"Type: {type(e).__name__}")
UnicodeDecodeError is raised when raised when decoding bytes to a string fails. Always catch specific exceptions rather than bare except clauses.
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