UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 5599: ordinal not in range(128)

[lmvasque]

Hi!

I've just downloaded this repo for installation and I got the ascii-related encoding error:

$ pip install .
Processing /tmp/easse
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: (..)/bin/python -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-req-build-5iyt237l/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-req-build-5iyt237l/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-9kwmmcl4
         cwd: /tmp/pip-req-build-5iyt237l/
    Complete output (7 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-req-build-5iyt237l/setup.py", line 5, in <module>
        long_description = f.read()
      File "(..)/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
        return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 5599: ordinal not in range(128)

This is fixed by adding "encoding='utf-8'" to the following lines in the setup.py script:

with open("README.md", "r", encoding='utf-8') as f:
    long_description = f.read()

with open("requirements.txt", "r", encoding='utf-8') as f:
    requirements = f.read().strip().split("\n")

In case someone else gets the same error, it would be great to update it :)

Best,

Laura

[louismartin]

Hi Laura, thank you for the comment, I'll update it right away!

[Obsinaan]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 1390: ordinal not in range(128)