UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u0335' in position 19: ordinal not in range(256)

[DeloitteYuvarajan]

requests/requests/auth.py

Line 60 in 79f6027

username = username.encode('latin1')

I got the below error on authenticating a Gmail user in my app, P.S: I have client-id and client-secret stored in a file from GCP project.

File "/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/google_auth_oauthlib/flow.py", line 240, in fetch_token return self.oauth2session.fetch_token( File "/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests_oauthlib/oauth2_session.py", line 341, in fetch_token r = self.request( File "/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests_oauthlib/oauth2_session.py", line 521, in request return super(OAuth2Session, self).request( File "/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 515, in request prep = self.prepare_request(req) File "/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 443, in prepare_request p.prepare( File "/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 322, in prepare self.prepare_auth(auth, url) File "/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 558, in prepare_auth r = auth(self) File "/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/auth.py", line 96, in __call__ r.headers['Authorization'] = _basic_auth_str(self.username, self.password) File "/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/auth.py", line 60, in _basic_auth_str username = username.encode('latin1') UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u0335' in position 19: ordinal not in range(256)