UnicodeDecodeError in tox install if LC_ALL = C

[smoser]

if LC_ALL is 'C', then installation in a tox environment fails.
Removing the 'setenv' block allows it to work.

$ cat tox.ini
[tox]
envlist = py34
recreate = True

[testenv]
commands = python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(0)'
deps =
    httpretty
setenv =
    LC_ALL = C

$ cat setup.py
from distutils.core import setup
setup(
    name="MyApplication", version="0.1.0",
    author="foo", author_email="foo@example.com",
)

$ rm -Rf .tox; tox -c tox.ini  -v
...
Downloading/unpacking httpretty
  Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-build-t5a7ox6l/httpretty/setup.py) egg_info for package httpretty
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-t5a7ox6l/httpretty/setup.py", line 86, in <module>
        version=read_version(),
      File "/tmp/pip-build-t5a7ox6l/httpretty/setup.py", line 46, in read_version
        finder.visit(ast.parse(local_file('httpretty', '__init__.py')))
      File "/tmp/pip-build-t5a7ox6l/httpretty/setup.py", line 78, in <lambda>
        open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *f)).read()
      File "/tmp/my/.tox/py34/lib/python3.4/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
        return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 133: ordinal not in range(128)
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
  File "/tmp/pip-build-t5a7ox6l/httpretty/setup.py", line 86, in <module>
    version=read_version(),
  File "/tmp/pip-build-t5a7ox6l/httpretty/setup.py", line 46, in read_version
    finder.visit(ast.parse(local_file('httpretty', '__init__.py')))
  File "/tmp/pip-build-t5a7ox6l/httpretty/setup.py", line 78, in <lambda>
    open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), *f)).read()
  File "/tmp/my/.tox/py34/lib/python3.4/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 133: ordinal not in range(128)

[smoser]

It seems that this appeared in 0.8.1 (using deps of 'httpretty==0.8.0' passes, but 'httpretty==0.8.1' fails).

[smoser]

seems likely to be related to 42b2476 and the unicode seen there in readme.rst

[syndbg]

Just tested it with 0.8.8. It's fixed 👍

[smoser]

Well, the original test case that I opened with above is still failing.
see http://paste.ubuntu.com/10679735/ .
Note, this is python3 that fails. python2 does not.
Also recreates with
LANG=C pip3 install --root=./x httpretty

dies with:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 133: ordinal not in range(128)
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):

[Tarrasch]

Did you find any workaround @smoser?

[smoser]

The easiest work around is to just install with a utf-8 locale. (en_US.utf-8)

[Tarrasch]

Thanks @smoser! Do you happen to know if the locale for the Travis build environment suddenly changed since yesterday? Or is only spotify/luigi affected by this?

[smoser]

On Wed, 13 May 2015, Arash Rouhani wrote:

Thanks @smoser! Do you happen to know if the locale for the Travis build environment suddenly changed since yesterday? Or is only spotify/luigi affected by this?

I don't know.
I just fixed my tox environment by adding 'LC_ALL' to the setenv.

old:
setenv = VIRTUAL_ENV={envdir}

new:
setenv = VIRTUAL_ENV={envdir}
LC_ALL = en_US.utf-8

[aviau]

Same issue here