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Countryinfo package charmap error - mkaru - Sep-14-2018

Hi!

Does anyone have any idea why countryinfo package returns the following charmap error message when calling an CountryInfo object?

from countryinfo import CountryInfo
country = CountryInfo('France')
country.region()

File "...\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\encodings\cp1257.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 47: character maps to <undefined>

RE: Countryinfo package charmap error - volcano63 - Sep-14-2018

Try to set encoding to either UTF-8 or UTF-16 - take a look at this PEP

PS Looks like your default encoding is CP1257

RE: Countryinfo package charmap error - snippsat - Sep-14-2018

Open countryinfo.py in ....\site-packages\countryinfo folder.
Line 30 add encoding to open:

country_info = json.load(open(file_path, encoding='utf-8'))

Save change.

E:\div_code\new
λ ptpython
>>> from countryinfo import CountryInfo

>>> country = CountryInfo('France')
>>> country.capital()
'Paris'

I guess he has not testet on Windows,if not specify encoding it will sometimes on Windows fall back to charmap CP1257 encoding.
You can post this in issus Repo countryinfo.

RE: Countryinfo package charmap error - mkaru - Sep-16-2018

PyCharm console:

>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'utf-8'

So, why does it complain about CP1257 encoding? Any idea to use some other countryinfo packages to find information for a specified country?

RE: Countryinfo package charmap error - snippsat - Sep-16-2018

(Sep-16-2018, 09:00 AM)mkaru Wrote: So, why does it complain about CP1257 encoding?

Yes the default encoding is utf-8,but when it try open the .json files it guess wrong.

(Sep-16-2018, 09:00 AM)mkaru Wrote: Any idea to use some other countryinfo packages to find information for a specified country?

Why don't you make change that i postet to line 30?

# Orginal
country_info = json.load(open(file_path))

# Fix
country_info = json.load(open(file_path, encoding='utf-8'))

Then the package work fine.

I can re build it for you with the fix.

pip uninstall countryinfo

Download countryinfo-0.1.0-py3-none-any
Then:

pip install countryinfo-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

RE: Countryinfo package charmap error - mkaru - Sep-16-2018

I made changes in countryinfo.py file but no positive result:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax
country = CountryInfo('France')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "...\site-packages\countryinfo\countryinfo.py", line 30, in __init__
    country_info = json.load(open(file_path, encoding='utf-8'))
  File "...\Python\Python37\lib\json\__init__.py", line 293, in load
    return loads(fp.read(),
  File "...\Python\Python37\lib\encodings\cp1257.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0xa1 in position 47: character maps to <undefined>

RE: Countryinfo package charmap error - snippsat - Sep-16-2018

I think you have misunderstand.

File "...\site-packages\countryinfo\countryinfo.py"

This should point to your root python installation,i just use ...\site-packages\countryinfo to point the file.
... should be where your Python 3.7 is installed.

Here with change to line 30 done.

C:\Users\Tom
λ python
Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:06:47) [MSC v.1914 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from countryinfo import CountryInfo
>>>
>>> country = CountryInfo('France')
>>> country.capital()
'Paris'
>>> exit()

Now i remove encoding='utf-8' from line 30.

C:\Users\Tom
λ python
Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:06:47) [MSC v.1914 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from countryinfo import CountryInfo
>>>
>>> country = CountryInfo('France')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\python37\lib\site-packages\countryinfo\countryinfo.py", line 30, in __init__
    country_info = json.load(open(file_path))
  File "C:\python37\lib\json\__init__.py", line 293, in load
    return loads(fp.read(),
  File "C:\python37\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 49: character maps to <undefined>

You see it point to my python installation File "C:\python37\lib\site-packages\countryinfo\countryinfo.py"
Also i made change to countryinfo.py in this location.