Name 'unicode' is not defined

[daliborb20]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "example.py", line 10, in
dl.download_course_by_url('')
File "/home/boogyman/skillshare-downloader/code/downloader.py", line 38, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File "/home/boogyman/skillshare-downloader/code/downloader.py", line 64, in download_course_by_class_id
slugify(teacher_name),
File "/home/boogyman/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/slugify.py", line 24, in slugify
unicode(
NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined

[VicVaquero]

@daliborb20 I got the same error as you. I see that you are using python3 and unicode is not longer supported (or was renamed str, idk). I tried to solve this by changing the slugify.py but without much success. Instead, I ran it on a venv with python2.7. However, I still got a similar error but I was able to fix it by modifying a line in the slugify.py.

def slugify(string):

    """
    Slugify a unicode string.

    Example:

        >>> slugify(u"Héllø Wörld")
        u"hello-world"

    """

    return re.sub(r'[-\s]+', '-',
            unicode(
                re.sub(r'[^\w\s-]', '',
                    unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', unicode(string,  'utf-8'))
                    .encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
                .strip()
                .lower()))

hope this helps :)

[shadow-hunte]

just download python-slugify-4.0.0 and install it. Newer ones will not work, uninstall any latest version you have already installed

[Helaluzzaman]

install python-slugify not slugify