Encoding problem during pip install

[Noordsestern]

System:

• Windows 10
• Python 3.7

I run in to the following problem when running pip install dwdweather2:

PS D:\workspaces\robotframework-dwdweather> pip install dwdweather2
Collecting dwdweather2
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/b9/0c/fb48f9e43f263a493f0a5e13d00bbe6ca0a31d11958b444836d218951a25/dwdweather2-0.8.0.tar.gz
    ERROR: Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\Daidalos\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pa4hwo8d\dwdweather2\setup.py", line 6, in <module>
        README = open(os.path.join(here, 'README.rst')).read()
      File "d:\programs\python\python37\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 0x9d in position 2062: character maps to <undefined>
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Daidalos\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pa4hwo8d\dwdweather2\

Installation works with dwdweather (is this project related to you) but not with dwdweather2.

Installing dwdweather:

PS D:\workspaces\robotframework-dwdweather> pip install dwdweather
Collecting dwdweather
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ee/4f/4bd3ceff7b6158133d6e7cbfd68f27e4d72fd2f80c83d032944e16bbbb2f/dwdweather-0.7.tar.gz
Installing collected packages: dwdweather
  Running setup.py install for dwdweather ... done
Successfully installed dwdweather-0.7

[amotl]

Dear @Noordsestern,

thanks for writing in.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x9d in position 2062: character maps to <undefined>

Ah, the usual suspects if README.rst is not totally ASCII-clean.

Thanks already for providing a fix through #6, we just released version 0.8.2 which should mitigate this issue for both Python 2.7 and Python 3.7.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

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P.S.:

Is [the dwdweather] project related to you?

We just took over the further development from there, so dwdweather2 is actually a descendant of dwdweather. See also marians/dwd-weather#3.

[Noordsestern]

Any plans migrating to python3?

[amotl]

Dear @Noordsestern,

thanks for asking. We would love to get Python3 support for this program and moved the respective discussion over to #7.

With kind regards,
Andreas.