I'm working with ArGIS Desktop 10.5 and python 2.7, and just installed geopandas to try it out. However, when I tried to read a shapefile, I received an encoding error:
import arcpy
import geopandas as gpd
data = gpd.read_file(r"<file_path_here>.shp", encoding='utf-8')
I know the shapefile has special characters (portuguese text), but I don't understand why the UTF-8 encoding is not working. I have never changed any default encoding properties. How could I fix this problem? Is there a way to check the shapefile's encoding?
Edit: sorry, I forgot the error message
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.5\lib\site-packages\geopandas\io\file.py", line 76, in read_file
with reader(path_or_bytes, **kwargs) as features:
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.5\lib\site-packages\fiona\env.py", line 398, in wrapper
return f(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.5\lib\site-packages\fiona\__init__.py", line 257, in open
layer=layer, enabled_drivers=enabled_drivers, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.5\lib\site-packages\fiona\collection.py", line 154, in __init__
self.session.start(self, **kwargs)
File "fiona\ogrext.pyx", line 466, in fiona.ogrext.Session.start
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x87 in position 34: ordinal not in range(128)
These are the packages' versions I was able to install (using wheels from lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#fiona)
- GDAL-2.2.4-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
- pyproj-1.9.6-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
- Fiona-1.8.13-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
- Shapely-1.6.4.post2-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl
- geopandas-0.6.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
For some reason, python 2.7 won't upgrade/ accept geopandas for version 10...
