Hi,

I frequently use a script to FTP files, but since upgrading to Python 3.9, I’ve been unable to run the script without getting an error stating that codec can’t decode certain bytes because they’re invalid start bytes. Here’s the most recent error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Tools\source\GBAS_master\GBAS\src\RepositorySync.py", line 601, in <module>

    ProcessSubdirectory(targetDirectory)

  File "C:\Tools\source\GBAS_master\GBAS\src\RepositorySync.py", line 537, in ProcessSubdirectory

    unusedDirFlag1 = ProcessFileGroup('*.COM', trimmedTarget) # Must be first as this creates new output _ListFiles.txt

  File "C:\Tools\source\GBAS_master\GBAS\src\RepositorySync.py", line 506, in ProcessFileGroup

    ftpHandle.GetFile(file)

  File "C:\Tools\source\GBAS_master\GBAS\src\RepositorySync.py", line 370, in GetFile

    res = self.ftp.retrlines('RETR ' + file, SpecialWrite) # This line varies....

  File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\ftplib.py", line 458, in retrlines

    line = fp.readline(self.maxline + 1)

  File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\codecs.py", line 322, in decode

    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xfa in position 6310: invalid start byte

0xfa is an interpunct/middle dot(·). I also got the same error multiple times with byte 0xa9 which is the copyright symbol (©).
My team believes a Python bug is causing this error because my boss was able to run the exact same script minutes with Python 3.7.7 & 3.8.3 without throwing an error.

Please let me know if I can provide any more information.

In case this helps, it looks like someone else ran into this same error with Python 2.7 back in 2017: https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog/issues/27

Thank you,

Daniel Cummings

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