Pyramid installation – “UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte” error fix
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Following pyramid framework installation notes I kept getting ‘ascii’ codec can’t decode byte error message. The whole error output looked like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 | $ bin/easy_install pyramid Searching for pyramid Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyramid/ Reading http://docs.pylonshq.com Reading http://pylonsproject.org Reading http://docs.pylonsproject.org Best match: pyramid 1.4a4 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyramid/pyramid-1.4a4.tar.gz#md5=0a5da1a25791764cdfefb15b2d55656a Processing pyramid-1.4a4.tar.gz Writing /tmp/easy_install-hrcuuc/pyramid-1.4a4/setup.cfg Running pyramid-1.4a4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-hrcuuc/pyramid-1.4a4/egg-dist-tmp-kbuxa9 Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/easy_install", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('distribute==0.6.28', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')() File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1929, in main with_ei_usage(lambda: File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1910, in with_ei_usage return f() File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1933, in <lambda> distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw File "/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/dist.py", line 917, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/dist.py", line 936, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 358, in run self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps) File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 598, in easy_install return self.install_item(spec, dist.location, tmpdir, deps) File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 628, in install_item dists = self.install_eggs(spec, download, tmpdir) File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 823, in install_eggs return self.build_and_install(setup_script, setup_base) File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1103, in build_and_install self.run_setup(setup_script, setup_base, args) File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1089, in run_setup run_setup(setup_script, args) File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 31, in run_setup lambda: exec(compile(open( File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 79, in run return func() File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 34, in <lambda> {'__file__':setup_script, '__name__':'__main__'}) File "setup.py", line 122, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/core.py", line 148, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/dist.py", line 917, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/dist.py", line 936, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py", line 172, in run self.run_command("egg_info") File "/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/cmd.py", line 313, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File "/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/dist.py", line 936, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 179, in run self.find_sources() File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 254, in find_sources mm.run() File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 308, in run self.add_defaults() File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/site-packages/distribute-0.6.28-py3.3.egg/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 339, in add_defaults self.read_manifest() File "/usr/lib/python3.3/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 377, in read_manifest for line in manifest: File "/home/pootzko/env/lib/python3.3/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 7896: ordinal not in range(128) |
…aaaaand it kept driving me nuts for a couple of hours until it finally came to me that the problem lied my locale setup and not in python setuptools. Simply typing:
1 | export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' |
in terminal to change the encoding fixed the problem (keep in mind that this changed the locale temporarily only for the current session).
Hope it saved you some time. Cheers!
No. 1 — February 26th, 2013 at 04:32
This helped me a lot – thank you. I have a Vagrant set up with a Chef recipe auto-installing a list of deps for me and it kept failing on a testcase in a project that had unicode characters in it!!
Couldn’t figure it out for the life of me till I came across this and it clicked, Ruby wasn’t using the environment’s encoding settings when making the command!
Thanks :)