UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 169: ordinal not in range(128)

Something similar has been posted before: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/403

This is using requests 1.1.0 But this problem is still popping up while trying to post just a file and a file with data.

On top of the similar issue, I've posted about this before and in requests_oauthlib it has said to been fixed; If you wish, I'll try and find the issue in that lib, just too lazy to open a new tab now ;P

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/mikehelmick/.virtualenv/twython/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 340, in post
    return self.request('POST', url, data=data, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/mikehelmick/.virtualenv/twython/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 279, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, stream=stream, timeout=timeout, verify=verify, cert=cert, proxies=proxies)
  File "/Users/mikehelmick/.virtualenv/twython/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 374, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/mikehelmick/.virtualenv/twython/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 174, in send
    timeout=timeout
  File "/Users/mikehelmick/.virtualenv/twython/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 422, in urlopen
    body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/Users/mikehelmick/.virtualenv/twython/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 274, in _make_request
    conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 955, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 989, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 951, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 809, in _send_output
    msg += message_body
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 169: ordinal not in range(128)

I posted a gist with sample code if any of you needed to test it. If you guys are really being lazy, I can post some app/user tokens for you to use (let me know).

Gist: https://gist.github.com/michaelhelmick/5199754

psf / requests

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 169: ordinal not in range(128) #1252