get_coauthors() throwing UnicodeEncodeError

[echelon-debug]

When trying to get coauthors from an author, I receive the following exception:

line 232, in get_coauthors
    coauthor_name = '{0} {1}'.format(given_name, surname)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

(I couldn't wait so I fixed this locally on my machine by simply encoding the given name and surname as UTF-8 at line 232)

[jkitchin]

Can you provide a short script that causes this error?

[echelon-debug]

Yes - though I've just left town for the weekend. Will get to this Monday.

[echelon-debug]

I'm currently being throttled for too many requests so I can't test this unfortunately, though something like this was causing the exception for me before:

from scopus.scopus_author import ScopusAuthor
author = ScopusAuthor(25935090600)
print [a.name for a in author.get_coauthors()]

[jkitchin]

I wonder it that is a python 2 issue. This worked fine for me with python3.

[echelon-debug]

This is quite likely, as I'm using Python 2, and I believe there are some differences in how strings are handled between the two.

[Michael-E-Rose]

Indeed there are differences. But the fix is simple (though hard to find): Simply make the concatenated name of the coauthors a unicode object.