Countryinfo package charmap error

[mkaru]

Hi!

I tried to use countryinfo package to match a country to it's continent but am still getting a charmap error message.

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

PyCharm console:

sys.getdefaultencoding()
'utf-8'

So, why does it complain about CP1257 encoding?

[Roman-Kasianenko]

Hi, I'm seeing the same problem

The code below got an error on windows 10.
python version 3.6.5

country = CountryInfo('Singapore')

File "...AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\countryinfo\countryinfo.py", line 30, in init
country_info = json.load(open(file_path))
File "....AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Lib\json_init_.py", line 296, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "....AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\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

[Porimol Chandro]

@Roman-Kasianenko ASAP you'll get update :)

[Austin Tidmore]

Love this module, Porimol, but I'm encountering the same error and cannot load info for any countries. TIA

Windows 10
Anaconda distribution, Python 3.7.3

[Brandon Lammey]

Windows Fix: modify line 30 of countryinfo.py
from: country_info = json.load(open(file_path))
to: country_info = json.load(open(file_path, encoding='utf-8'))

[Porimol Chandro]

Resolved!

[Michael]

This is still an issue for me on windows 10.

Following advice here fixed it, though: https://python-forum.io/Thread-Countryinfo-package-charmap-error

[Porimol Chandro]

hey @oosena , can you please install from source code? and let's report what happened.