MCDB 'ascii' error when importing Trapping table

[ethanwhite]

MCDB 'ascii' error when importing Trapping table

[ethanwhite]

This doesn't seem to be an issue on Windows, and after opening a different copy of the file on my Ubuntu machine using gedit and switching the encoding to Western I can no longer produce the error. This is still true after deleting the copy of the file that I opened with the Western encoding...

[bendmorris]

This was apparently a shared hallucination.

[ethanwhite]

Sadly this was apparently not a shared hallucination and is not isolated to the MCDB. Using the current RC I have this error on MCDB, Barnes et al. 2008, Woods et al. 2009, Zachmann et al. 2010, USDA Plants, McGlinn et al. 2010, and del Moral 2010.

It seems like this must be something that changed in Ubuntu 12.04 (or maybe Python 2.7.3) since we weren't seeing this before.

[bendmorris]

This is strange. It happened once to me yesterday, but disappeared immediately after upon trying again, with no change to the executable or data files. I haven't been able to consistently duplicate it.

[bendmorris]

I did also see it on del Moral. Afterward, though, I was able to download every single dataset successfully using the Windows executable.

[bendmorris]

I just attempted MCDB and del Moral with both Windows and Linux, and had no problem.

[bendmorris]

Also, I would've thought "sys.setdefaultencoding('latin-1')" in main.py would resolve this issue. ascii should no longer be the default codec.

Which version did you continue to have this issue with? Windows?

[bendmorris]

Interesting - Python actually deletes the sys.setdefaultencoding method upon startup. But "reload(sys)" will get it back. I'll make this change and see if it solves the problem.

http://blog.ianbicking.org/illusive-setdefaultencoding.html

[ethanwhite]

This was always on Ubuntu for me.

[bendmorris]

I'm not getting the issue atm so I can't confirm - could you see if the latest change has solved the issue?

[ethanwhite]

That seems to have solved it. Nice job tracking that down.