Twython Incomplete Read HTTP Chunk Encoding Error

[glenng910]

I am trying to run a Twitter Stream using Python 3 and Twython on the Raspberry Pi 3. When I run it on the development machine (Windows 10 desktop) under Anaconda window. it runs fine. I receive the chunk encoding error once every few days. When I move it to the Pi, I get the error a few times every hour. I also see garbled messages on occasion. I am not sure how to handle the problem. I posted it on Stack Overflow a few days ago and no one replied. The link is here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/533 ... r-python-3

This code will usually trigger an on_error method if there is a problem, but in my case it does not. I had to enclose the stream in a try block to prevent it from crashing completely.

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  ## try to ignore http errors crashing the system
    while True:
       try:
            stream.statuses.filter(follow=users, language = 'en')        
 
        except:
            e = sys.exc_info()[0]  
            print('ERROR:',e ) 
            continue

I would welcome suggestions

[DirkS]

I would welcome suggestions

What kind of suggestions do you expect?
If you can't do anything about the error and it doesn't affect the outcome then just ignore it.

You can catch specific errors:

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try
    code that causes the error
except exceptioncode:
    pass

If you can't just ignore it then you could do something else instead of a 'pass'

[glenng910]

I can ignore it on the PC, but not on the Raspberry Pi. On the PI, not only are the errors numerous, the info in the incoming stream is garbled- rendering the entire application useless.

[smithy1155]

can i make a suggestion, have you thought that it could be emojis?. i've used Twython my self, and it always got an encoding error when an emoji was used