Issue running prepDE.py

[G-Molano-LA]

Hi, I was trying to to execute prepDE.py and I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/prepDE.py", line 266, in transcript_len+=int(v[4])-int(v[3])+1 #because end coordinates are inclusive in GTF ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '14374r\x16("&/\xcf\xbe\xa9\xb16A\xf9\x04\x14\x1f\x89~\x13\xa5\x83\xff\xf9\xa6l\xa0\xeb\x97\xdb\x7f\x16\xe2|\x80]\xedr?\x0b\xd5\x7f\xb0\xac\x93\x0b5O\x13Q\xceR\x11\x0e\x89\xba}\xbf\x83aC\x8edW\x15\xe4\xfa}\xf3]'

Do you have any idea why this error is occurring and what I may do to address it?