UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 0: invalid start byte

[sandeep allampalli]

Dear wradlib users,

I am trying to read radolan files which are in ASCII format. 

My code is something like this: "data_raw, meta = wrl.io.read_radolan_composite(filename)"

And error: "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 0: invalid start byte"

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance,

Sandeep

[Kai Mühlbauer]

Dear Sandeep,

first, you might also ask this question here:

https://openradar.discourse.group

as we slowly transitioning towards a combined discussion resource.

To correctly answer your question, please provide your Python version,
wradlib version and the file in question (as attachment or linked).

A complete traceback of the exact error message helps too.

Thanks,
Kai

Am 03.10.22 um 15:28 schrieb sandeep allampalli:

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[sandeep allampalli]

Hello all,

I am trying to read data from (Index of /climate_environment/CDC/grids_germany/hourly/radolan/historical/asc/). I have downloaded the data to my local machine. For reference I am writing my code below in comments.

import os 

import sys

import wradlib as wrl

import numpy as np 

import warnings warnings.filterwarnings("ignore") 

 os.environ["WRADLIB_DATA"] = "C:\\Users\Admin\wradlib-data-main" 

 filename = "Data/Firstyear/RW-200506.tar" 

filename = wrl.util.get_wradlib_data_file(filename) 

data_raw, meta = wrl.io.read_radolan_composite(filename)

When running the file this is the error I am facing:

runfile(‘D:/Sandeep/Thesis/thesis.py’, wdir=‘D:/Sandeep/Thesis’)
Traceback (most recent call last):

File “C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\wradlib\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\py3compat.py”, line 356, in compat_exec
exec(code, globals, locals)

File “d:\sandeep\thesis\thesis.py”, line 19, in
data_raw, meta = wrl.io.read_radolan_composite(filename)

File “C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\wradlib\lib\site-packages\wradlib\io\radolan.py”, line 763, in read_radolan_composite
attrs = radfile.attrs

File “C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\wradlib\lib\site-packages\wradlib\io\radolan.py”, line 1000, in attrs
self._attrs = self._read_attrs()

File “C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\wradlib\lib\site-packages\wradlib\io\radolan.py”, line 1039, in _read_attrs
header = read_radolan_header(self.fp)

File “C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\envs\wradlib\lib\site-packages\wradlib\io\radolan.py”, line 691, in read_radolan_header
header += str(mychar.decode())

UnicodeDecodeError: ‘utf-8’ codec can’t decode byte 0x8b in position 0: invalid start byte