I try to read a csv file I have read and write access to into a dataframe using pandas under Win10 within Visual Code. What I have tried yet is: df1 = pd.read_csv("C:\\Users\\me\\Desktop\\Python\\Analytics\\in\\test_DS.csv", sep=';', header = None) df1 = pd.read_csv(r"C:\Users\me\Desktop\Python\Analytics\in\test_DS.csv", sep=';', header = None) df1 = pd.read_csv(r"C:/Users/me/Desktop/Python/Analytics/in/test_DS.csv", sep=';', header = None) But I still get the Error: Unable to open parsers.pyx File not found in C:/Users/me/Desktop/Python/Pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here? ******************Traceback To get a Traceback I implemented: except Exception: print("Exception in user code:") print("-"*60) traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout) print("-"*60) I got: Exception in user code: ------------------------------------------------------------ Traceback (most recent call last): File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1169, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_tokens File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1299, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_with_dtype File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1315, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._string_convert File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1553, in pandas._libs.parsers._string_box_utf8 UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 10: invalid start byte During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Users\me\Desktop\Python\GPTW-Analytics\py\main.py", line 22, in <module> df1 = pd.read_csv('C:/Users/me/Desktop/Python/GPTW-Analytics/in/test_DS.csv', sep=';') File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 702, in parser_f return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds) File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 435, in _read data = parser.read(nrows) File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 1139, in read ret = self._engine.read(nrows) File "C:\Users\me\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 1995, in read data = self._reader.read(nrows) File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 899, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.read File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 914, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_low_memory File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 991, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_rows File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1123, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_column_data File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1176, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_tokens File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1299, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._convert_with_dtype File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1315, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._string_convert File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 1553, in pandas._libs.parsers._string_box_utf8 UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 10: invalid start byte ------------------------------------------------------------ Continue reading...