title: python charmap codec can't decode byte X in position Y character maps to <undefined>
body: <p>I'm experimenting with python libraries for data analysis,the problem i'm facing is this exception</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>UnicodeDecodeError was unhandled by user code Message: 'charmap' codec
    can't decode byte 0x81 in position 165: character maps to &lt; undefined></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have looked into answers with similar issues and the OP seems to be either reading text with different encoding or printing it.</p>
  
  <p>In my code the error shows up at import statement,that's what confuses me.
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ZINb.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4ZINb.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>I'm using python 64 bit 3.3 on Visual Studio 2015
  and geotext is the library where it shows the error.</p>
  
  <p>Kindly point as to where to look to deal with this error.</p>