#🔒 Unicode encode error

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@sick sapphire

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sterile pivot
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the content you're getting may not be JSON at all

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I suggest you check what it actually is

stone oyster
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Check both headers Content-Type and Content-Encoding

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content-encoding may be absent

sterile pivot
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and content-type may lie

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though it's more likely that you're just getting non-json content like HTML

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happened to me more times I can count

stone oyster
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What's the url you're using?

sterile pivot
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if you replace .json() with read(), can you verify that it's actually in JSON format?

stone oyster
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.content

sterile pivot
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oh, that's the way? I don't use requests myself

stone oyster
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the error isn't in the json part, but decoding it from utf-8

snow goblet
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Encode Error? that's weird though

sterile pivot
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I wanted the OP to confirm the contents to see what they're really dealing with

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yeah, it's apparently .content in requests

stone oyster
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He's confusing requests with urllib.request

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content will return a bytes object

sterile pivot
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I don't use that either 🙂

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@sick sapphire seeing what the content is would help

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emojis should be fine

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well, utf-8 has no problem with encoding emojis

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but...what is that charmap codec?

snow goblet
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I'm more confused it's saying Unicode__Encode__Error.

sterile pivot
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yeah, that's weird

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that above sequence decodes to 👑

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@sick sapphire could you show us the traceback?

snow goblet
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charmap could be something like cp1252.. it usually says on the next line of the error.
It would be helpful if you showed the full tracback.

stone oyster
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!traceback please

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sterile pivot
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I bet that OP looked at the wrong line of the traceback

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yup, I was right

stone oyster
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it's an error with print

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likely your stdout is misconfigured

sterile pivot
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why did you say it was a problem with requests?

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how?

stone oyster
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You can do sys.stdout.reconfigure(encoding="utf-8")

sterile pivot
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when clearly it happened when printing something to the console

stone oyster
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I've seen some installs use ascii for stdout for some reason

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you can check via sys.stdout.encoding

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!e import sys; print(sys.stdout.encoding)

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🔒 Unicode encode error