Dear Marco,

I’m sorry you’re seeing this problem. Usually this UnicodeDecodeError indicates a bug in MGET, in which we made a mistake in handling file system paths that include non-ASCII characters. We have not extensively tested all of the tools with non-ASCII paths so it is possible we have not eliminated all such bugs.

In your particular case, the problem concerns the character é. Do you have that character in either Simulation Directory parameter, or in your Windows user account name?

If possible, can you please send me the full output of the tool in ArcGIS?

Best regards,

Jason

Dear,

I am facing a problem in the Coral Reef Connectivity Simulation. I am trying to download the AVISO current products and I am getting an error concerning the ascii encoding. I do not know how to solve this and any help would be much appreciated!

Marco

I am working on Windows XP Service Pack 3
ArcGis Desktop 10
MGET 0.8a45
Python version 2.6

The full error message is:

RuntimeError: Failed to open URL http://opendap.aviso.oceanobs.com/thredds/dodsC/dataset-duacs-dt-upd-medsea-merged-madt-uv with OPeNDAP. The operation was retried for 120 seconds without success. Verify that the URL is correct. If it is, check that the server is operating properly and that your computer can connect to it. If necessary, contact the server's operator for assistance. If the server and network are operating properly, this problem could be a programming error in this tool. If you suspect one, contact the author of this tool for assistance. Error details: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 43: ordinal not in range(128)
<type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>: Failed to open URL http://opendap.aviso.oceanobs.com/thredds/dodsC/dataset-duacs-dt-upd-medsea-merged-madt-uv with OPeNDAP. The operation was retried for 120 seconds without success. Verify that the URL is correct. If it is, check that the server is operating properly and that your computer can connect to it. If necessary, contact the server's operator for assistance. If the server and network are operating properly, this problem could be a programming error in this tool. If you suspect one, contact the author of this tool for assistance. Error details: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 43: ordinal not in range(128)
Failed to execute (CoralReefConnectivityLoadAvisoGeostrophicCurrentsIntoSimulation).


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