failed pip install of pyfiglet

[loonster]

I'm running os s Mavericks. Here's the error message:

~ $: pip install #21
Downloading/unpacking #21
Downloading 21 (unknown size): 26kB downloaded
Cleaning up...
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 278, in run
requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 1197, in prepare_files
do_download,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 1375, in unpack_url
self.session,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/download.py", line 582, in unpack_http_url
unpack_file(temp_location, location, content_type, link)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/util.py", line 627, in unpack_file
and is_svn_page(file_contents(filename))):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/util.py", line 210, in file_contents
return fp.read().decode('utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: invalid start byte

[pwaller]

This looks like this pip issue. I'm afraid I don't have the resources to determine why this is happening now.

[loonster]

OK, thanks.

Tim Burton
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On Jun 8, 2014, at 2:10 AM, Peter Waller notifications@github.com wrote:

This looks like this pip issue. I'm afraid I don't have the resources to determine why this is happening now.

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[defance]

You shoud try:

py -m pip install git+https://github.com/kennethreitz/legit

[pwaller]

I'm going to close on the assumption that the above will fix it. We'll reopen if it doesn't.