UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

[GiantSpaceRobot]

Hi there,

When I run this code (Python 2.7)

from ete3 import NCBITaxa ncbi = NCBITaxa()

I get this error

NCBI database not present yet (first time used?) Downloading taxdump.tar.gz from NCBI FTP site (via HTTP)... Done. Parsing... Loading node names... Traceback (most recent call last): File "NewScript.py", line 2, in ncbi = NCBITaxa() File "/home/user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ete3/ncbi_taxonomy/ncbiquery.py", line 110, in init self.update_taxonomy_database(taxdump_file) File "/home/user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ete3/ncbi_taxonomy/ncbiquery.py", line 129, in update_taxonomy_database update_db(self.dbfile) File "/home/user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ete3/ncbi_taxonomy/ncbiquery.py", line 745, in update_db t, synonyms = load_ncbi_tree_from_dump(tar) File "/home/user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ete3/ncbi_taxonomy/ncbiquery.py", line 670, in load_ncbi_tree_from_dump line = str(line.decode()) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

The taxdump.tar.gz file is succesfully downloaded before the Python script crashes due to the UnicodeDecodeError. I'm not why this issue is occurring, as I have run this code on two separate machines (up-to-date ete3 versions), one throwing this error and one not.

Thanks, Paul

[GiantSpaceRobot]

This problem magically disappeared.