Same python script works in one machine, gives error in the second one - UnicodeDecodeError

Question

I'm creating charts using pygal in python and the script works fine in one machine but produces unicode decode error in the second one. No idea why.

#TCreating pygal charts
pie_chart = pygal.Pie(style=DarkSolarizedStyle, legend_box_size = 20)
pie_chart.title = 'Github/Jenkins-Migration Status Chart (in %)'
pie_chart.add('Intro', int(intro))
pie_chart.add('In Progress', int(in_progress) )
pie_chart.add('Parallel', int(parallel))
pie_chart.add('ParallelBuild', int(parallelBuild))
pie_chart.add('Complete', int(complete))
pie_chart.render_to_file("../../../../../usr/share/nginx/html/TeamFornax/githubMigration/OverallProgress/overallProgress.svg")

Works in one but gives error in second :

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "migrationcharts.py", line 187, in <module>
    pie_chart.render_to_file("../../../../../usr/share/nginx/html/TeamFornax/githubMigration/OverallProgress/overallProgress.svg")
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pygal/ghost.py", line 149, in render_to_file
    f.write(self.render(is_unicode=True, **kwargs))   
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pygal/ghost.py", line 112, in render
    .render(is_unicode=is_unicode))   
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pygal/graph/base.py", line 293, in render
    is_unicode=is_unicode, pretty_print=self.pretty_print)   
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pygal/svg.py", line 271, in render
    self.root, **args)   
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1010, in tostring
    return string.join(data, "")   
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/string.py", line 318, in join
    return sep.join(words) 
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)

Ran pdb and got this :

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pdb.py", line 1296, in main
    pdb._runscript(mainpyfile)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/pdb.py", line 1215, in _runscript
    self.run(statement)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/bdb.py", line 372, in run
    exec cmd in globals, locals
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "migrationcharts.py", line 185, in <module>
    pie_chart.render_to_file("../../../../../usr/share/nginx/html/TeamFornax/githubMigration/OverallProgress/overallProgress.svg")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pygal/ghost.py", line 149, in render_to_file
    f.write(self.render(is_unicode=True, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pygal/ghost.py", line 112, in render
    .render(is_unicode=is_unicode))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pygal/graph/base.py", line 293, in render
    is_unicode=is_unicode, pretty_print=self.pretty_print)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pygal/svg.py", line 271, in render
    self.root, **args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1010, in tostring
    return string.join(data, "")
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/string.py", line 318, in join
    return sep.join(words)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 40: ordinal not in range(128)
Uncaught exception. Entering post mortem debugging
Running 'cont' or 'step' will restart the program

Are you sure that at both terminals you are using the same encoding? — Kobi K, Nov 05 '14 at 16:26
UTF - 8 in both. One is windows command prompt and the other is a linux terminal. — Scooby, Nov 05 '14 at 16:29
This is the first time I hear that `cmd.exe` supports `utf-8` as terminal encoding. — ivan_pozdeev, Nov 05 '14 at 19:52
oops sorry utf-8 in linux terminal(where it fails) and its running smooth in windows cmd. — Scooby, Nov 05 '14 at 20:00
Possible duplicate of [Python default/implicit string encodings](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49991870/python-default-implicit-string-encodings) — ivan_pozdeev, May 19 '19 at 12:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 05 '14 at 19:30

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Try:

pie_chart.title = unicode('Github/Jenkins-Migration Status Chart (in %)', "utf-8")

edited Nov 05 '14 at 19:30

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answered Nov 05 '14 at 19:23

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If I make pie_chart.render(), it succeeds, its failing on rendering to file for somereason with unicode error. – Scooby Nov 05 '14 at 19:37

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 06 '14 at 20:46

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>>> import sys
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding() 
ascii
>>> sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
utf8

Thats how I resolved it.

edited Nov 06 '14 at 20:46

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answered Nov 06 '14 at 19:54

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The stock `site` module deletes `setdefaultencoding` from `sys` on the interpreter's startup. – ivan_pozdeev Nov 06 '14 at 20:45
added this in my script so that it sets it every single time before script is run. – Scooby Nov 10 '14 at 01:37

Same python script works in one machine, gives error in the second one - UnicodeDecodeError

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