UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd5 in position 24: invalid continuation byte

[chenzx]

• Pip version: 9.0.1
• Python version: 3.6.3 32bit
• Operating system: Windows 7, 64bit

Description:

What I've run:

C:\Users\banma-227>python -m pip install shapely
Collecting shapely
  Downloading Shapely-1.6.2.tar.gz (220kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 225kB 38kB/s
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\compat\__init__.py", line 73, in console_to_str
    return s.decode(sys.__stdout__.encoding)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd5 in position 24: invalid continuation byte

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 324, in run
    requirement_set.prepare_files(finder)
  File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 380, in prepare_files
    ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
  File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 634, in _prepare_file
    abstract_dist.prep_for_dist()
  File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_set.py", line 129, in prep_for_dist
    self.req_to_install.run_egg_info()
  File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\req\req_install.py", line 439, in run_egg_info
    command_desc='python setup.py egg_info')
  File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\utils\__init__.py", line 676, in call_subprocess
    line = console_to_str(proc.stdout.readline())
  File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\compat\__init__.py", line 75, in console_to_str
    return s.decode('utf_8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd5 in position 24: invalid continuation byte

[pradyunsg]

Hi @chenzx!

This is indeed an issue that has since been fixed. The upcoming pip 10 release will contain a fix for it. :)

Ref: #4486

[chenzx]

OK, thanks for fix. 2017-10-30 19:28 GMT+08:00 Pradyun Gedam <notifications@github.com>:

…

Hi @chenzx <https://github.com/chenzx>! This is indeed an issue that has since been fixed. The upcoming pip 10 release will contain a fix for it. :) Ref: #4486 <#4486> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#4825 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAmBT89xb8y1ArDEaBcnitmN60L4rDABks5sxbLGgaJpZM4QKnBR> .

[moorepants]

Is there a work around before pip 10 is released?

[pradyunsg]

@moorepants Have a read of #4110. There's at least 2 ways it can worked around, IIRC. One of them doesn't involve upgrading to the development version of pip.

---

@chenzx If you want to, you can close this issue. :)

[chrahunt]

It looks like this was fixed so I will go ahead and close the issue, but please let us know if something is wrong.