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UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x98 in position 6074: character maps to <undefined>

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Help me please. What am I doing wrong?

from pyowm import OWM
owm = OWM('xxxxxxxx')
reg = owm.city_id_registry()
london_loc = reg.ids_for('London', 'GB')
print(london_loc)

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Created 6 years ago
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csparpacommented, Sep 15, 2017

Hi @mmagnuski and @RussianButman I’ve been able to test the branch on Windows 10 with Python3.5 and it seems to work fine (I manage to get the correct output for the ids_for() call when running mmagnusky’s code snippet)

Can you please confirm that you also don’t get exceptions?

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csparpacommented, Sep 16, 2017

Thanks @mmagnuski !

Fixed with #213

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