From 952c4c560e5b1c4462f3deb481bbaea9b93f1460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Srdjan Grubor <sgnn7@sgnn7.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:41:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure to decode web responses with UTF-8
Without this, running this code on python2 fails with the following:
`UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte ... in position ...: ordinal not in range(128)`
Python3 is fine since it uses utf8 by default.
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update_repos | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/update_repos b/update_repos
index 0874818..60e2a6c 100755
--- a/update_repos
+++ b/update_repos
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ def read_api_uri(uri, config, page=1):
print("Trying URI {} with headers {}".format(uri, headers))
req = Request(uri, headers=headers)
- return urlopen(req).read().decode()
+ return urlopen(req).read().decode('utf-8')
def get_json(uri, config, obj_type=AttributeDict, page=1):
return json.loads(read_api_uri(uri, config, page), object_hook=obj_type)
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