Hi - I got an error message in Prefect Cloud

Failed to load and execute Flow's environment: SyntaxError("invalid or missing encoding declaration for '/home/.../MOC/etl_moc.py'")

-After the flow began and executed some tasks successfully. The flow was run locally. Is this a bug or something not configured correctly on my end? Thanks

Hi itay - it’s hard to say for sure, but this appears to be an issue with the Flow’s storage configuration. Could you share some reproducible code?

Reproducible flow code? As for storage this is the config

etl_moc_flow.storage = Local(
    labels=["scrape-moc"],
    path="/home/itay/MOC/etl_moc.py",
)

gotcha, if you are storing your flow as a

.py

script you additionally need to specify

stored_as_script=True

Ok will try it --- But why did the same flow run fine yesterday? And why does it decide on this error in the middle or end of a script?

too many unknowns for me to say - something must have changed; also not sure what you mean by “middle or end of a script” - loading the flow’s environment is the first step in running the flow, which is when I would expect this error to get raised

Loading the flow’s environment is the first step in running the flow, which is when I would expect this error to get raised

I agree with that statement - what surprises me is that is happens on a terminal task or task with an upstream edge and downstream edge.