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Error when installing the package

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I get this error while installing the module:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>pip install vg
Collecting vg
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/34/42/aad07165a66eb402ec60d2e40640b585ca56b748b42e9923c1242be4d06b/vg-1.2.1.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\reas\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-2c8clwqs\vg\setup.py", line 10, in <module>
        readme = f.read()
      File "c:\program files (x86)\python37-32\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
        return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 1618: character maps to <undefined>

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:10 (10 by maintainers)

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paulmelnikowcommented, Sep 29, 2019

Released in 1.2.2!

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paulmelnikowcommented, Sep 29, 2019

Not sure! Seems well documented that the encoding parameter doesn’t exist in Python 2…

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