UnicodeEncodeError in retrieve_author() with non-ascii names

[Michael-E-Rose]

I was searching for "Augustín Carstens" with Scopus ID 6603722641:

>>> info = scopus.retrieve_author("6603722641")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pyscopus/pyscopus.py", line 101, in retrieve_author
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xed' in position 2793: ordinal not in range(128)

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 using with Python 2.7. I however don't know which version of pyscopus I am on as __version__ is not defined.

[zhiyzuo]

Updated version fixed this issue.

[Michael-E-Rose]

This one does not work completely. While there is no error, the name is wrong because the non-ascii character is simply removed.

>>> info = scopus.retrieve_author("6603722641")
Name: Agustn G. Carstens
Affiliation: International Monetary Fund (n/a,Washington,DC,n/a,United States)
>>> info
{'current-affiliation': [{'address': 'n/a,Washington,DC,n/a,United States', 'id': '60021406', 'name': 'International Monetary Fund'}], 'citation-count': 30, 'last-name': 'Carstens', 'subject-areas': ['Development', 'Accounting', 'Finance', 'Economics and Econometrics', 'Geography, Planning and Development'], 'affiliation-history': [{'address': 'n/a,Washington,DC,n/a,United States', 'id': '60021406', 'name': 'International Monetary Fund'}, {'address': 'Central Bank of,n/a,n/a,n/a,Mexico', 'id': '101232294', 'name': 'IMF'}, {'address': 'Avenida 5 de Mayo 2, Colonia Centro,Delegacion Cuauhtemoc,DF,6059,Mexico', 'id': '60092432', 'name': 'Banco de Mexico'}], 'cited-by-count': 29, 'first-name': 'Agustn G.', 'journal-history': ['Journal of Asian Economics', 'American Economic Review', 'IMF Staff Papers', 'Pakistan Development Review', 'American Economic Review', 'Columbia Journal of World Business', 'Trimestre Economico', 'Finance and Development'], 'document-count': 7}

The person however is named Carstens, Agustín G., as in https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603722641

[zhiyzuo]

I understand what you want but for my tasks, I simply remove ascii for easier preprocessing of text mining. That's why I just ignore other encoding characters.

If you really need this, I can work on this later today or tomorrow.

[Michael-E-Rose]

Well it's not about me, I am just reporting problems/issues related to an open-source software project ;)

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Reopened #3 https://github.com/zhiyzuo/python-scopus/issues/3.

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[zhiyzuo]

I got it fixed not and the version now is upgraded to 0.7.2.post4.

Thank you for bringing this up and let me make this project better. Let me know if the modified version works for you now.

[Michael-E-Rose]

Looks perfect, thank you!