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Issues Importing Data to TypeSense Python Client

TLDR Mehdi was having trouble importing data to a TypeSense Python client. Kishore Nallan released a new Python client version to fix Mehdi's encoding issues.

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Mehdi

01:32 PM

Hello everyone
I'm new to TypeSense
I have a Python client and I'm trying to import data to it using this code:

with open(jsonl_path, encoding='utf-8') as jsonl_file:
    client.collections[name].documents.import_(jsonl_file.read(), {'action': 'create'})

It's returning:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode characters in position 3340888-3340891: Body ('تونس') is not valid Latin-1. Use body.encode('utf-8') if you want to send it encoded in UTF-8.

When I do jsonl_file.read().encode('utf-8') it returns TypeError: Object of type bytes is not JSON serializable

How can I solve this?

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Kishore Nallan

01:34 PM

You are using Python 3, right? Can you post a short github gist containing a sample file and the corresponding python code snippet using the import? That way I can reproduce and suggest.

Mehdi

01:43 PM

Hello
https://gist.github.com/alterEgo123/f2d01264b905d84a23a6f8593360eb7d

Kishore Nallan

01:59 PM

Thanks, taking a look

02:22

Kishore Nallan

02:22 PM

Mehdi This requires an update to the Python client. I will publish it shortly so that you can test

02:29

Kishore Nallan

02:29 PM

Mehdi I just published 0.12.0 version of the Python client: can you please try using that? You still have to do .encode('utf-8') but it will work now.

Mehdi

02:58 PM

Yes thank you ! 💯

Kishore Nallan

03:44 PM

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