Hi Eelke, Thank you for your quick response! I kept having a suspicion the config file was the culprit, I've attached the actual input file (I had to tweek the file a few times because I'm not 100% sure what mist is looking for), could you help identify this "non-ascii character"? As for the SGE, I had tried another options, so I will try your suggestion! Thanks again, Anu On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Eelke Visser <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Anu, > > Looks like you may have a non-ascii character in your mist_filenames file > - does that make sense? Feel free to attach the file if you don't see > anything wrong with it. > > If you don't have SGE set up it should automatically run locally - you can > type "unset SGE_ROOT" to be sure. > > Hope that helps! > > Eelke > > > -----Original Message----- > From: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Anu Venkatesh > Sent: 27 June 2017 14:43 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [FSL] MIST questions, new FSL update 5.0.10 > > Dear FSl support, > > I'm starting to play around with MIST (FSL and python novice here), and > I'm having a lot of trouble with it. I saw it's currently in Beta stage-are > bugs still being worked out? > > First I had some issues with the filenames config file, but after that was > sorted out, I'm having trouble from the job submissions end. I've gotten > error messages (posted an example below) and I'm still trying to work out > how to tell MIST to not look for a SGE (not set up) and just run locally. > > Help would be very much appreciated! > > All the best, > Anu > > error messages: Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/fsl/python/mist/mist_script.py", line 256, in <module> > do_preproc(sys.argv[2]) > File "/usr/local/fsl/python/mist/mist_script.py", line 128, in > do_preproc > mtypes, scans, vsize = read_config() > File "/usr/local/fsl/python/mist/mist_script.py", line 93, in > read_config > for ln in csv.reader(fnf): > File "/usr/local/fsl/fslpython/envs/fslpython/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", > line 26, in decode > return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0] > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 10: > ordinal not in range(128) >