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UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte

See original GitHub issue

I just installed pipreqs for the first time. This is what it does:

$ pipreqs $(pwd)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/tillmann/dev/textSum/.direnv/python-3.8.3/bin/pipreqs", line 10, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Users/tillmann/dev/textSum/.direnv/python-3.8.3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pipreqs/pipreqs.py", line 470, in main
    init(args)
  File "/Users/tillmann/dev/textSum/.direnv/python-3.8.3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pipreqs/pipreqs.py", line 406, in init
    candidates = get_all_imports(input_path,
  File "/Users/tillmann/dev/textSum/.direnv/python-3.8.3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pipreqs/pipreqs.py", line 122, in get_all_imports
    contents = f.read()
  File "/usr/local/bin/../Cellar/python@3.8/3.8.3_2/bin/../Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/codecs.py", line 322, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb1 in position 81: invalid start byte

Am I doing something wrong?

$ neofetch           
                    'c.          tillmann@MacBook-Pro 
                 ,xNMM.          -------------------- 
               .OMMMMo           OS: macOS Catalina 10.15.5 19F101 x86_64 
               OMMM0,            Host: MacBookPro15,1 
     .;loddo:' loolloddol;.      Kernel: 19.5.0 
   cKMMMMMMMMMMNWMMMMMMMMMM0:    Uptime: 17 days, 14 hours, 5 mins 
 .KMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.    Packages: 115 (brew) 
 XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.      Shell: zsh 5.7.1 
;MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:       Resolution: 1680x1050@2x, 3840x1600@2x, 1050x1680@2x 
:MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM:       DE: Aqua 
.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX.      WM: Quartz Compositor 
 kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd.    WM Theme: Blue (Light) 
 .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMk   Terminal: Apple_Terminal 
  .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMK.   Terminal Font: HackNerdFontComplete-Regular 
    kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMd     CPU: Intel i7-8850H (12) @ 2.60GHz 
     ;KMMMMMMMWXXWMMMMMMMk.      GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630, Radeon Pro 560X 
       .cooc,.    .,coo:.        Memory: 10080MiB / 16384MiB 
$ python -V                      
Python 3.8.3

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Teraskullcommented, Jul 24, 2020

$ pipreqs --encoding utf-8

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AgaMikocommented, Apr 25, 2022

I had a .venv directory with the usual hugh collection of python files. Something in the package black.py messed it up. A rm -rf .venv, and “pipreqs .” worked.

Thank you sir - this finally fixed my issue

Adding ignore parameters also work fine and you don’t have to remove virtual env!

pipreqs . --ignore ".env"