UnicodeDecodeError while using dill load

Asked Aug 11 '19 at 06:33

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I am trying to load a model using dill.load but getting UnicodeDecodeError.

BASEDIR = './raw/data/'
modelfile = 'xyz.pkl'
model = dill.load(open('%s%s' % (BASEDIR, modelfile), 'rb'))

Error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc6 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

I tried adding encoding='utf-8' based on other available answers but then I get a ValueError:

ValueError: binary mode doesn't take an encoding argument

The output of locale in my conda environment terminal:

LANG=
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

I am using python 3.7

asked Aug 11 '19 at 06:33

loadbox

Was the `pkl` file created in Python 2 or Python 3? – iz_ Aug 11 '19 at 06:39
It was created in Python 2.7. – loadbox Aug 11 '19 at 06:47
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11305790/pickle-incompatibility-of-numpy-arrays-between-python-2-and-3 – iz_ Aug 11 '19 at 06:49
As noted in the link above, this is common for pickling in 2.x and unpicking in 3.x. – Mike McKerns Aug 11 '19 at 12:12
Ok, thanks. Shall I delete my question? – loadbox Aug 11 '19 at 13:26

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