Question :
When I’m trying to install beautifulsoup4 on my new notebook (Win 7 64) using pip, I get this error:
Cleaning up...
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:Python27libsite-packagespipbasecommand.py", line 122, in main
status = self.run(options, args)
File "C:Python27libsite-packagespipcommandsinstall.py", line 278, in run
requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundl
e=self.bundle)
File "C:Python27libsite-packagespipreq.py", line 1234, in prepare_files
req_to_install.assert_source_matches_version()
File "C:Python27libsite-packagespipreq.py", line 464, in assert_source_ma
tches_version
% (display_path(self.source_dir), version, self))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x9e in position 58: ordinal
not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:Python27librunpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
File "C:Python27librunpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
exec code in run_globals
File "C:Python27Scriptspip.exe__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
File "C:Python27libsite-packagespip__init__.py", line 185, in main
return command.main(cmd_args)
File "C:Python27libsite-packagespipbasecommand.py", line 161, in main
text = 'n'.join(complete_log)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x9e in position 73: ordinal
not in range(128)
I use: pip install beautifulsoup4 command
Do you have an idea where could be the problem?
PS: The notebook was used for presentations before get it, so there are programs in multiple languages installed.
Answer #1:
This is because your current working directory contains non-ascii characters. E.g.:
$ pwd
$ /home/abuser/????????
This issue is still present in pip 1.5.6 and this is awful. So, you can avoid patching pip and just change your working dir.
Answer #2:
Or simply, you can run the following command on your system right before pip install, and voila:
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
Answer #3:
This is a known issue with pip with an unreleased (as of 26/11/2014) fix. Since you are using Python 2.7, you can manually patch pip for now.
Answer #4:
In my case it was caused because where were non US-ASCII letters in requirements.txt
