"UnicodeDecodeError" when pip install

[curiositer]

Describe the bug
when I try to use pip install Flask-MonitoringDashboard,it happened.
File "C:...\flask-monitoringdashboard\setup.py", line 11, in get_description
info = readme.read()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa2 in position 1571: illegal multibyte sequence

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:...\pip-install-c4devic4\Flask-MonitoringDashboard\

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
1.pip install Flask-MonitoringDashboard
2. See error

or
1.Download the source
2. Add ".encode("utf-8")" after "readme.read()"
3.See error

Expected behavior
I want to install this.

Screenshots

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [windows 10 professional]

Additional context
so I know it is an UnicodeDecodeError,but I cannot deal with it,thanks so much!

[bogdanp05]

Hi @curiositer,

I wasn't able to replicate this. I used the following settings on my system:

• Windows 10 64 bit
• virtual environment as described here
• Python 3.7.3

Running pip install Flask-MonitoringDashboard installed the package successfully. Could you give us more details about your system, so we can try to replicate the error?

Regards,
Bogdan

[curiositer]

Oh,thanks! I have solved the problem.

I used pip install flask-Monitoring-Dashboard, and it succeed.
Without of using "-",when I used pip install Flask-MonitoringDashboard,the error happened.

Thanks a lot, but I don'n know why,maybe it doesn't match with the "gbk" unicode?

I used the following settings on my system:

• Windows 10 64 bit
• Python 3.6.8 :: Anaconda, Inc.

Haha, my English is not so well,thank you for your reply.

Regards,
John

[bogdanp05]

I used pip install flask-Monitoring-Dashboard, and it succeed.

I'm afraid you installed something else. You installed this, which is a very old and no longer supported version of the Flask Monitoring Dashboard package, whereas the new version is this one.

Could you try to run pip install Flask-MonitoringDashboard inside a virtual environment? Also, what does sys.getdefaultencoding() return on your system?

Thanks a lot, but I don'n know why,maybe it doesn't match with the "gbk" unicode?

It's probably trying to use GBK to read a file encoded with UTF-8

[curiositer]

Oh,thanks for warning me,I must install the old version.

When I run this:
import sys sys.getdefaultencoding()
The result is: "'utf-8'"

And I run "pip install Flask-MonitoringDashboard",I got the same error as I had met.(The screenshot I had posted upstairs.)
Then I tried the url you have given to me,download it, unzip, and python setup.py install,but got the same error.
So how to deal with it?Thanks!

[bogdanp05]

In the setup.py file, try to replace line 10:
with open(loc + '/README.md') as readme:
with this:
with open(loc + '/README.md', encoding='utf-8') as readme:
Let me know if this fixes the error.

[curiositer]

Thanks so much,I installed it successfully,I had tried change the read() encode,but it doesn't exist.
I forget the open function can change the encoding.
It seems to have another error,I think maybe because of the Internet,and then I tried to use pip install Flask-MonitoringDashboard, finally it succeed.
The error code below:

error: Download error for https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ed/29/d97b6252591da5f8add0d25eecda296ea72729a0aad7998edba1981b47c8/numpy-1.16.2-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl#sha256=d20c0360940f30003a23c0adae2fe50a0a04f3e48dc05c298493b51fd6280197: EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:852)

I have installed the package successfully.Thanks a lot!

[bogdanp05]

Glad I could help!