UnicodeDecodeError on startup #1017
Description
I got the following error on import. The offending file that triggers the error is a valid python3 file encoded in utf-8 (it has # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- at the top), but not ascii).
$ mypy --use-python-path myfile.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/rmcgibbo/miniconda/bin/mypy", line 6, in <module>
main(__file__)
File "/Users/rmcgibbo/miniconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mypy/main.py", line 49, in main
type_check_only(sources, bin_dir, options)
File "/Users/rmcgibbo/miniconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mypy/main.py", line 92, in type_check_only
python_path=options.python_path)
File "/Users/rmcgibbo/miniconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mypy/build.py", line 197, in build
result = manager.process(initial_states)
File "/Users/rmcgibbo/miniconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mypy/build.py", line 383, in process
next.process()
File "/Users/rmcgibbo/miniconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mypy/build.py", line 725, in process
res = self.import_module(id)
File "/Users/rmcgibbo/miniconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mypy/build.py", line 766, in import_module
path, text = read_module_source_from_file(file_id, self.manager.lib_path)
File "/Users/rmcgibbo/miniconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/mypy/build.py", line 911, in read_module_source_from_file
text = f.read()
File "/Users/rmcgibbo/miniconda/lib/python3.5/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 3037: ordinal not in range(128)