Unknown encoding: idna in Python Requests

Question

I\'m using Python Requests. All works great but today I get this strange error:

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File \"/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/re         


        

Answer 1

Try adding:

import encodings.idna

in various places to sift out other errors. I ran into this same problem working on a port of python to a new platform. We had only partial library support and unicodedata was missing which was causing imports of the idna module to fail. Once we ported unicodedata this error went away.