UnicodeDecodeError

I am trying to run the EMPPairedEndSequences command and keep getting this:

UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0x8b in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

An unexpected error has occurred:

’ascii’ codec can’t decode byte 0x8b in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

See above for debug info.

Hi @Acetylcholine88,
Your post is a duplicate of this:

Please check out that thread (and the links in there) to troubleshoot — let us know if that does not sort out the problem! If so, please also post the full error message (run your command with the --verbose flag to see the full error) and post the exact command you are attempting to run.