Python 3: TypeError: ord() expected string of length 1, but int found

[demongolem]

#57 This was closed, but not fixed completely as I believe this is a different code path that causes the same problem. There was another commenter after it was closed that said they still have that problem. I too have that problem. It occurs with a handful of pdf files, not all of them. Nonetheless, I have entire pdf files where all the pages spit out this same type error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "eclipse-workspace/AccidentReports/FetchFromATSB.py", line 66, in process_file
    text += pageObj.extractText()
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyPDF2/pdf.py", line 2595, in extractText
    content = ContentStream(content, self.pdf)
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyPDF2/pdf.py", line 2673, in __init__
    stream = BytesIO(b_(stream.getData()))
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyPDF2/generic.py", line 841, in getData
    decoded._data = filters.decodeStreamData(self)
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyPDF2/filters.py", line 350, in decodeStreamData
    data = LZWDecode.decode(data, stream.get("/DecodeParms"))
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyPDF2/filters.py", line 255, in decode
    return LZWDecode.decoder(data).decode()
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyPDF2/filters.py", line 228, in decode
    cW = self.nextCode();
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/PyPDF2/filters.py", line 205, in nextCode
    nextbits=ord(self.data[self.bytepos])
TypeError: ord() expected string of length 1, but int found

[n3ssuno]

Dear all,
I think I solved this issue by installing PyPDF2 from the git repo instead of using the PyPi version.
Apparently both methods install version 1.26.0.
However, looking into the source code of the version installed from PyPi, the fix reported in 00b9677 was not present in the code.
The version installed from git does not rise the error mentioned in the previous post.
In any case, issues remain because now the text extracted from the PDFs does not have spaces between words. But I am still investigating what causes this issue and if the two things are somehow related.
I hope this helps.

[MartinThoma]

I've released a couple of newer versions on PyPI recently. As it seems that this issue was already solved, I close it. Let me know if you still see it!