[Django]-Datafile not found, datafile generation failed in confusable_homoglyphs/categories.py

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(I couldn’t comment on the question because I don’t have enough karma.)

You encountered this error because you rely on a library I wrote. It downloads some files from unicode.org whenever it gets loaded for the first time. Unfortunately I didn’t expect a few use cases, for instance deploying apps with my lib as a dependency on Platforms as a Service, where dependencies would frequently get downloaded, which would also cause my lib to hit unicode.org much more frequently than I had expected.

Fortunately someone submitted a patch to the lib, fixing this issue for good. Please upgrade to confusable_h*m*glyphs>=3.0.0. 🙂

👤vhf

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I have the same problem, and after doing some research I’ve discovered the source of the problem: the registration library requires confusable-h*m*glyphs, and confusable-h*m*glyphs looks for two files: categories.json and confusables.txt. If it doesn’t find those files, it tries to download two files from unicode.org – Scripts.txt and confusables.txt – and generate the two json files from those. If you download those files too often, unicode.org will throttle your bandwidth and possibly even blacklist your address.

confusable-h*m*glyphs is hard-wired to put the files in the working directory returned by os.getcwd(), so I downloaded those files on a different computer and put them in my working directory. The Django migration was successful. I hope this works for you too!

👤grvsmth

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