UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: invalid start byte

在学习TensorFlow图像处理函数时，调用 tf.gfile.FastGFile( )函数时，出现了如上的问题。

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import tensorflow as tf
# 读取图像的原始数据
file_dir = 'D:\\PycharmWorkspace\\test\\flower.jpeg'
image_raw_data = tf.gfile.FastGFile(file_dir, 'r').read()

with tf.Session() as sess:
    img_data = tf.image.decode_jpeg(image_raw_data)

    print(img_data.eval())

    # 使用pyplot工具可视化得到的图像
    plt.imshow(img_data.eval())
    plt.show()

百度没有解决问题，看了stackoverflow解决了，stackoverflow的解决方案。

解决办法：改为 'rb'模式

image_raw_data = tf.gfile.FastGFile(file_dir, 'rb').read()

大神的解释：Python tries to convert a byte-array (a bytes which it assumes to be a utf-8-encoded string) to a unicode string (str). This process of course is a decoding according to utf-8 rules. When it tries this, it encounters a byte sequence which is not allowed in utf-8-encoded strings (namely this 0xff at position 0).