Pickle file error - UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte

Question

I am trying to load a pickle file using the following code, but it is giving error:

>>> with open('PS118220_TrainingData.pkl','r') as f:
...     data=pickle.load(f)

The error is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte

What is wrong with the above code? 

Answer 1

You are opening the pickle file in 'r' mode and hence it is giving the error. Use 'rb' mode instead of 'r' mode and you will not get the error.

>>> with open('PS118220_TrainingData.pkl','rb') as f:
...     data=pickle.load(f)