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Error when running Python converted exe: "UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte" using reverse_geocoder

I'm working on a Python 3.7.9 program (.py) that works perfectly fine when running on both CMD terminal and PyCharm (I am using the reverse_geocoder module - it is relevant to the error). I then used pyinstaller to convert the .py file to .exe. I got the file in the dist folder. But, when running it I get an error:
(I have imported reverse_geocoder as rg -since that pops up in the error)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "myProgram.py", line 235, in <module>
location = reverseGeocode(coordinates)
File "myProgram.py", line 170, in reverseGeocode
result = rg.search(coordinates)
File "reverse_geocoder\__init__.py", line 292, in search
File "reverse_geocoder\__init__.py", line 88, in getinstance
File "reverse_geocoder\__init__.py", line 111, in __init__
File "reverse_geocoder\__init__.py", line 197, in extract
File "c:\users\USER\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 286: character maps to <undefined>
I tried adding encoding='utf-8' to open() in reverse_geocoder_init_.py as suggested by several forum questions, but the error didn't change.
Can somebody help me out? P.S. I'm a beginner in Python so please simplify the answers if possible.

I couldn't solve this. Instead, I decided to use the Bing Reverse geocoder and it solved my issue. That was a lot easier, with smaller code block, and more free API calls per month.

Python write to json file gives UnicodeDecodeError [duplicate]

I know that this is a very common error, but it's the first time I've encountered it when trying to write a file.
I'm using networkx to work with graphs for network analysis, and when I try to write into any format:
nx.write_gml(G, "Graph.gml")
nx.write_pajek(G, "Graph.net")
nx.write_gexf(G, "graph.gexf")
I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 2, in write_pajek
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/networkx/utils/decorators.py", line 263, in _open_file
result = func(*new_args, **kwargs)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/networkx/readwrite/pajek.py", line 100, in write_pajek
path.write(line.encode(encoding))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 19: ordinal not in range(128)
I haven't found documentation on this, so quite confused.

Wondering if you can make use of codec module to solve it or not. Just create a file object by codec as following before feeding to networkx.
ex,
import codecs
f = codecs.open("graph.gml", "w", "utf-8")

Python num2words bug in french translation

I am using the num2words library for Python in order to translate numbers into french words.
However I have an encoding issue with the following case :
num2words((5.05),lang='fr')
output :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/num2words/__init__.py", line 50, in num2words
return converter.to_cardinal(number)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/num2words/base.py", line 93, in to_cardinal
return self.to_cardinal_float(value)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/num2words/base.py", line 127, in to_cardinal_float
out.append(str(self.to_cardinal(curr)))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)
It seems to be coming from the "zéro" string. But I do not have the problem when there is no dot:
num2words((0),lang='fr')
output:
u'z\xe9ro'
Can you please help ?
Thanks !

Python UnicodeEncodeError: codec can't encode character [duplicate]

Python throws this when using the wolfram alpha api:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\Skype4Py\utils.py", line 225, in run
handler(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "s.py", line 38, in OnMessageStatus
if body[0:5] == '!math':wolfram(body[5:], '')
File "s.py", line 18, in wolfram
print "l: "+l
File "c:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xd7' in position 3
: character maps to <undefined>
how can I solve this?

Looks like you're passing in high-byte data to the API, and it's not liking that (\xd7 is the "Times" character; looks like an X). I'm not certain what purpose the print is for, but changing it to be print "l: " + repr(l) or print "l: ", l might at least get you past the above error, assuming you don't want to be in the business of converting the body to unicode (I'm assuming it's not...).
If that doesn't help, we'll need more details. Where is your input coming from? Is body unicode, or a byte string? Are you using python 2.7 or 3.x?

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character

Python throws this when using the wolfram alpha api:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\Skype4Py\utils.py", line 225, in run
handler(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "s.py", line 38, in OnMessageStatus
if body[0:5] == '!math':wolfram(body[5:], '')
File "s.py", line 18, in wolfram
print "l: "+l
File "c:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xd7' in position 3
: character maps to <undefined>
how can I solve this?

Looks like you're passing in high-byte data to the API, and it's not liking that (\xd7 is the "Times" character; looks like an X). I'm not certain what purpose the print is for, but changing it to be print "l: " + repr(l) or print "l: ", l might at least get you past the above error, assuming you don't want to be in the business of converting the body to unicode (I'm assuming it's not...).
If that doesn't help, we'll need more details. Where is your input coming from? Is body unicode, or a byte string? Are you using python 2.7 or 3.x?