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user1637000
user1637000

Reputation: 162

Google API Reading .p12 key in python 3

I'm trying to port some code from Python 2 to 3, but it's throwing a UnicodeDecodeError when it reads the Google API .p12 service key. 

with open('service_key.p12', 'r') as f:
    private_key = f.read()

Here is the error

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 1: invalid start byte

This code works fine in python 2.7, it breaks with python 3.4 Also I have pyOpenSSL==0.14 installed.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 904

Answers (1)

Balint Domokos
Balint Domokos

Reputation: 1021

In python 3 you have to use the 'b' flag as well for opening binary files:

with open('service_key.p12', 'rb') as f:
    private_key = f.read()

As described here, Binary I/O will not do character encoding/decoding. You get the UnicodeDecodeError because you used Text I/O, which tries to decode the data as UTF-8, but your data is not valid UTF-8.

Upvotes: 5

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