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Installing mqttwarn through pip croaks with UnicodeDecodeError

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When building 0.11.3 as found at https://pypi.org/project/mqttwarn/, I hit this error:

===>  Configuring for py36-mqttwarn-0.11.3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "setup.py", line 7, in <module>
    README = open(os.path.join(here, 'README.rst')).read()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 4963: ordinal not in range(128)
*** Error code 1

I have encountered this on other applications, but I do not recall the fix. To get around this and proceed with the build, I did this:

rm README.rst
touch README.rst

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:8 (7 by maintainers)

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jpmenscommented, Nov 25, 2019

Thanks for your report, @dlangille. Please note that we’re not as yet Python3 capable, which is why you’re seeing all those errors. The version on PyPi still requires Python2.

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amotlcommented, Dec 2, 2019

Dear Dan,

7411a39 might fix the installation issue re. README.rst for you. Also, 40fa69a5 finally brings mqttwarn way closer to Python3 (#336).

The most recent version can be installed using pip install mqttwarn and should work with both Python 2 and Python 3. We will be happy to hear back from you about the outcome.

With kind regards, Andreas.