Setting `flickr30k` to `root` argument of `Flickr30k()` gets error
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Description
🐛 Describe the bug
Setting flickr30k to root argument of Flickr30k() gets the error as shown below. *I used the absolute paths on Windows 11:
flickr30k
|- Images
| |- *.jpg
| ...
└ results_20130124.token
from torchvision import datasets
train_data = datasets.Flickr30k(
root="C:/Users/<user>/dl-models/data/flickr30k/images", # Here
ann_file="C:/Users/<user>/dl-models/data/flickr30k/results_20130124.token",
)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 7496: character maps to
from torchvision import datasets
train_data = datasets.Flickr30k(
root="C:/Users/<user>/dl-models/data/flickr30k", # Here
ann_file="C:/Users/<user>/dl-models/data/flickr30k/results_20130124.token",
)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 7496: character maps to
Versions
import torchvision
torchvision.__version__ # '0.20.1'
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Start at the torchvision.datasets.Flickr30k() entry point and reproduce the Windows 11 failure with the supplied root and ann_file layout. Inspect how the annotation file is read and add coverage for this input; done means Flickr30k loads the provided annotations without the reported UnicodeDecodeError.
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- python
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