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UnicodeEncodeError : 'ascii' codec can 't encode character ' \ U0001f6d1 ' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128) This Python error might happen if you are having problems displaying non-ASCII characters in your terminal when running a Python script. This is mainly a problem with your locale settings used by your terminal. I provide two solutions to resolve it: Solution #1 : change your locale settings (best solution) Solution #2 : export  PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8  (temporary solution) Solution #1: change your locale settings (best solution) The best solution consists in fixing your locale settings since it is permanent and you don’t have to change any Python code. Append ~/.bashrc  or  ~/.bash_profile  with: export LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" export LANGUAGE = "en_US:en" You should provide your own UTF-8 based locale settings. The example uses the English (US) locale with the encoding UTF-8 . The locale -a  comma...

When opening a terminal session, conda activates the base environment by default. If you want to prevent this default behaviour, you have three ways: Trick #1  :  Set the auto_activate_base parameter to false Trick #2  : Add conda deactivate in your bash configuration file Trick #3  :  Comment out some part of the conda initialisation code block in your bash configuration file NOTES: I'm working with  conda version 4.7.5 and  miniconda3 (it should also work with anaconda ). These tricks also worked with  conda version 4.6.14 After installing conda 4.7, conda added this block of code in my ~/.bash_profile : This is the block of code that we will modify in the following tricks Trick #1: set auto_activate_base  to false Per conda's instructions, "if you'd prefer that conda's base environment not be activated on startup, set the auto_activate_base parameter to false". Thus, enter the following command in a terminal: c...