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Change default encoding option used by pandas.read_csv - #150
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Looks great, thanks @davemfish !
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Fixes #143 .
Fixes #147
I confirmed the test raised the same
KeyErrorseen in the issue before this fix. Prior to this fix pandas usedutf-8as the default encoding.I considered added an
encodingkwarg todescribeto let users control how they decode, but decided not to do that yet. Usingutf-8-sigshould support all the same tables that were supported byutf-8, so I figure until we hear demand for supporting other encodings we don't need to add this argument.I also edited
HISTORY.rstfor an upcoming release. There are no other issues to complete before this release, and this saves an extra PR.