Conda Install Error UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 49: ordinal not in range(128)

[tstegman]

Howdy,

I have been trying to install Anaconda for a while now and have had no success. I have played around with the PATH variables and uninstalled and reinstalled several times. I am new to python and and not sure what to do next other than give up. Any help would be great. Thanks!

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Current conda install:

           platform : win-64
      conda version : 4.3.27
   conda is private : False
  conda-env version : 4.3.27
conda-build version : 3.0.22
     python version : 2.7.13.final.0
   requests version : 2.18.4
   root environment : C:\Anaconda2  (writable)
default environment : C:\Anaconda2
   envs directories : C:\Anaconda2\envs
                      C:\Users\m.modeler\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
                      C:\Users\m.modeler\.conda\envs
      package cache : C:\Anaconda2\pkgs
                      C:\Users\m.modeler\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
       channel URLs : https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/main/win-64
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/main/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-64
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/win-64
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/r/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/win-64
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/win-64
                      https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/msys2/noarch
        config file : None
         netrc file : None
       offline mode : False
         user-agent : conda/4.3.27 requests/2.18.4 CPython/2.7.13 Windows/7

Windows/6.1.7601
administrator : False

$ C:\Anaconda2\Scripts\conda ..checkenv cmd.exe C:\Anaconda2

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line 171, in main

    activate.main()
  File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\activate.py", line 181, in

main
from ..install import symlink_conda
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\conda\install.py", line 37, in
from .core.package_cache import rm_fetched # NOQA
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\conda\core\package_cache.py", line 9,
in
from .path_actions import CacheUrlAction, ExtractPackageAction
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\conda\core\path_actions.py", line 33,
in
from ..gateways.download import download
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\conda\gateways\download.py", line 10,
in
from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError, HTTPError, InvalidSchem
a, SSLError
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\requests_init_.py", line 84, in
from urllib3.contrib import pyopenssl
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\urllib3\contrib\pyopenssl.py", line 4
6, in
import OpenSSL.SSL
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\OpenSSL_init_.py", line 8, in
from OpenSSL import rand, crypto, SSL
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\OpenSSL\crypto.py", line 12, in
from cryptography import x509
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\cryptography\x509_init_.py", line
9, in
from cryptography.x509.base import (
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\cryptography\x509\base.py", line 16,
in
from cryptography.x509.extensions import Extension, ExtensionType
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\cryptography\x509\extensions.py", lin
e 13, in
from asn1crypto.keys import PublicKeyInfo
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\asn1crypto\keys.py", line 22, in
from ._elliptic_curve import (
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\asn1crypto_elliptic_curve.py", line
51, in
from ._int import inverse_mod
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\asn1crypto_int.py", line 56, in
from ._perf._big_num_ctypes import libcrypto
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\asn1crypto_perf_big_num_ctypes.py",
line 31, in
libcrypto_path = find_library('crypto')
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\ctypes\util.py", line 53, in find_library
fname = os.path.join(directory, name)
File "C:\Anaconda2\lib\ntpath.py", line 85, in join
result_path = result_path + p_path
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 49: ord
inal not in range(128)

C:\Users\m.modeler\Documents>

[mingwandroid]

Please show the value of PATH.

[tstegman]

PATH
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\“;"C:\Program Files\R\R-3.1.0\bin\x64";

PYTHONPATH
C:\Anaconda2;C:\Anaconda2\Scripts;C:\Anaconda2\Library\lib

[mingwandroid]

You need to remove the quotes from your PATH, both the non-ASCII “ one and the ASCII ones that serve no purpose.

[mingwandroid]

Also, do not set PYTHONPATH it is more trouble than it is worth.

[tstegman]

Thank you so much! It worked!!!

[github-actions]

Hi there, thank you for your contribution to Conda!

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