UnicodeDecodeError utf-8 codec cant decode byte 0xce in position 16 invalid continuation byte

This error occurs when the Python interpreter tries to decode a string using the UTF-8 codec, but encounters a byte that it cannot interpret as part of a valid UTF-8 character. The byte in question is 0xce, which is not a valid continuation byte in UTF-8.

To fix this error, you need to determine the encoding of the string that you are trying to decode and use the appropriate codec. If you're not sure what the encoding is, you can try using the chardet library to automatically detect it.

For example, if you have a byte string b'\xce\xa9\xce\xbb\xce\xb1' and you know that it's encoded in ISO-8859-7 (Greek), you can decode it like this:

s = b'\xce\xa9\xce\xbb\xce\xb1'
s_decoded = s.decode('iso-8859-7')
print(s_decoded)  # Output: 'Ωλα'

Alternatively, you can use chardet to automatically detect the encoding:

import chardet

s = b'\xce\xa9\xce\xbb\xce\xb1'
encoding = chardet.detect(s)['encoding']
s_decoded = s.decode(encoding)
print(s_decoded)  # Output: 'Ωλα'

In either case, the output should be the decoded string, without any UnicodeDecodeError.