UnicodeDecodeError when import span_marker

[p-dre]

This error message appears when I try to import span_markers

from span_marker import SpanMarkerModel

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/name_entity.py", line 9, in <module>
  File "/home/user/miniconda3/envs/span_marker_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/span_marker/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    import torch
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/torch/__init__.py", line 778, in <module>
    _C._initExtension(manager_path())
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py", line 170, in <module>
    _lazy_call(_check_capability)
  File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py", line 168, in _lazy_call
    _queued_calls.append((callable, traceback.format_stack()))
  File "/home/user/miniconda3/envs/span_marker_env/lib/python3.9/traceback.py", line 197, in format_stack
    return format_list(extract_stack(f, limit=limit))
  File "/home/user/miniconda3/envs/span_marker_env/lib/python3.9/traceback.py", line 211, in extract_stack
    stack = StackSummary.extract(walk_stack(f), limit=limit)
  File "/home/user/miniconda3/envs/span_marker_env/lib/python3.9/traceback.py", line 366, in extract
    f.line
  File "/home/user/miniconda3/envs/span_marker_env/lib/python3.9/traceback.py", line 288, in line
    self._line = linecache.getline(self.filename, self.lineno).strip()
  File "/home/user/miniconda3/envs/span_marker_env/lib/python3.9/linecache.py", line 30, in getline
    lines = getlines(filename, module_globals)
  File "/home/user/miniconda3/envs/span_marker_env/lib/python3.9/linecache.py", line 46, in getlines
    return updatecache(filename, module_globals)
  File "/home/user/miniconda3/envs/span_marker_env/lib/python3.9/linecache.py", line 137, in updatecache
    lines = fp.readlines()
  File "/home/user/miniconda3/envs/span_marker_env/lib/python3.9/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 346: invalid continuation byte

[tomaarsen]

Hello!

This seems to originate from import torch, which might mean that your torch installation is not working. You can try reinstalling it or looking for advice in the torch repository.

• Tom Aarsen