Installation on Windows fails - bad character in README.rst?

[shanselman]

When running setup.py (doesn't matter how) with Python 3.2.3 I get a error. A bad character perhaps in README.rst.

C:\Users\scottha\Desktop\build\httpie>python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 29, in <module>
    long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
  File "C:\Python32\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 15359:
aracter maps to <undefined>

I got past it and installed by commenting out the open.

long_description="", #open('README.rst').read(),

[jkbrzt]

It should be fixed in master now. You can try installing it with:

pip install -U https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarball/master

Thanks for the report!

[shanselman]

Hm, got this:

C:\windows\system32>pip install -U
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarball/master

Downloading/unpacking https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarball/master
Downloading master (494Kb): 494Kb downloaded
Running setup.py egg_info for package from
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarb
all/master

Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 104, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 245,
in run

requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle,

bundl
e=self.bundle)
File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 1009, in
prepare_files
req_to_install.run_egg_info()
File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 230, in run_egg_info
"%(Name)s==%(Version)s" % self.pkg_info())
File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 318, in pkg_info
data = self.egg_info_data('PKG-INFO')
File "C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 261, in
egg_info_data
data = fp.read()
File "C:\Python32\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position
21306: ch
aracter maps to

Storing complete log in C:\Users\scottha\AppData\Roaming\pip\pip.log

C:\windows\system32>

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Jakub Roztocil notifications@github.comwrote:

It should be fixed in master now. You can try installing it with:

pip install -U https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarball/master

Thanks for the report!

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[jkbrzt]

Fixed now. You might be the first person to try HTTPie on Windows with Python 3 :) I've noticed that along with the install process being broken, colorising doesn't work in this environment either (#87). Until it gets fixed, you can use --format to skip colorising as a workaround.

[jkbrzt]

…and colors are working as well now