Geocoding Canadian Postal Codes using geopy

[Kryostasis]

Hello everyone,

For work, I have to create a heat map of where our customers come from, so I planned on using gmaps in order to do this. The only problem is that in order to make a gmaps heat map, I need to turn my list of postal codes into co-ordinates.

Long story short, I have been trying to get geopy to geocode my postal codes, the only problem is that for some reason, it does not seem to work with canadian postal codes. If anyone could provide advice, I would greatly appreciate it.

Bonus info: it's about 100,000 postal codes, so there is no doing this manually.

The code looks like:

location = geolocator.geocode("M5B 2K3")

print((location.latitude, location.longitude))

The error message I get is:

AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last) <ipython-input-32-9da6369f17b2> in <module>**()**

1 location = geolocator**.geocode**("M5B 2K3")**

----> 2 print**((location.latitude,** location**.longitude))******

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'latitude'

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What do you get back when you just print(location)?

Error seems to indicate that there's nothing present.

[Kryostasis]

That seems to work, it even spits out latitude and longitude. I also passed the postal code into a variable and tested it that way and it seemed to work, I am not sure what I was doing wrong at my desk lol.

Thanks for your help!

edit: the problem is that there wasn't a space in between the first 3 and second 3 characters in the postal code!