Encoding in .sas7dbat

Question

I am trying to import a sas dataset(.sas7bdat format) using pandas function read_sas(version 0.17) but it is giving me the following error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 12: ordinal not in range(128)

Answer 1

Use encoding='iso-8859-1'

pd.read_sas(filepath, format = 'sas7bdat', encoding='iso-8859-1')