Unicodedecodeerror, Invalid Continuation Byte

UnicodeDecodeError, invalid continuation byte

In binary, 0xE9 looks like 1110 1001. If you read about UTF-8 on Wikipedia, you’ll see that such a byte must be followed by two of the form 10xx xxxx. So, for example:

>>> b'\xe9\x80\x80'.decode('utf-8')
u'\u9000'

But that’s just the mechanical cause of the exception. In this case, you have a string that is almost certainly encoded in latin 1. You can see how UTF-8 and latin 1 look different:

>>> u'\xe9'.encode('utf-8')
b'\xc3\xa9'
>>> u'\xe9'.encode('latin-1')
b'\xe9'

(Note, I'm using a mix of Python 2 and 3 representation here. The input is valid in any version of Python, but your Python interpreter is unlikely to actually show both unicode and byte strings in this way.)

python stdin: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xca in position 0: invalid continuation byte

Yes, I do. Let's look at your command line:

(venv) Test@Test-MacBookPro pythonProject1 % /Users/Test/PycharmProjects/pythonProject1/venv/bin/python /Users/Test/PycharmProjects/pythonProject1/proto_1.py < /Users/Test/PycharmProjects/pythonProject1/venv/bin/python /Users/Test/PycharmProjects/pythonProject1/input.txt    

Removing the paths just to make it more clear:

python proto_1.py < python input.txt

You are passing the Python interpreter executable as your input file. Why did you do that? Just pass the file name:

/Users/Test/PycharmProjects/pythonProject1/venv/bin/python /Users/Test/PycharmProjects/pythonProject1/proto_1.py < /Users/Test/PycharmProjects/pythonProject1/input.txt 

Got the error:UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 1: invalid continuation byte, playsound

It seems that the file was written in a different encoding than what the playsound module is expecting.

If you have created the mp3 file yourself, maybe you have not chosen the right encoding.

Otherwise, it might be a bug of the playsound module.

Update:
The error message actually refers to the file path you are providing, not the file itself. As you are working on Windows and paths are build with backslashes, which are a special character in Python strings, you need to use either double backslashes instead of a single backslash as in

'C:\\Users\\hp\\Desktop\\francisco\\trabalhos que não são da escola\\musica.mp3'

or you provide the string as a raw string by putting an "r" before the first quotation mark, like this:

r'C:\Users\hp\Desktop\francisco\trabalhos que não são da escola\musica.mp3'

Update 2: Combining f-string and r-string

from pathlib import Path

Path(rf"{r'C:\Users'}").exists()
File "<ipython-input-45-dc9a3746d390>", line 1
Path(rf"{r'C:\Users'}").exists()
             ^
SyntaxError: f-string expression part cannot include a backslash

Path(rf"{'C:'}\{'Users'}").exists()
Out[46]: True
Path(fr"{'C:'}\{'Users'}").exists()
Out[47]: True

Django UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xcf in position 5: invalid continuation byte

Everything turned out to be far from django, I thought I changed the username to the end, but I had to go all the way to computer > properties > change properties and change full name, thank for you time

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