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Regression 38.7.0: ascii decode error when installing package from source

See original GitHub issue

When installing https://github.com/file/file/blob/master/python/ from source python 2.7.14 setuptools 38.7.0 fails:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 21, in <module>
    'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-38.7.0-py2.7.egg/setuptools/__init__.py", line 129, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-38.7.0-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/install.py", line 69, in run
    self.do_egg_install()
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-38.7.0-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/install.py", line 111, in do_egg_install
    self.run_command('bdist_egg')
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-38.7.0-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py", line 163, in run
    self.run_command("egg_info")
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-38.7.0-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 271, in run
    writer(self, ep.name, os.path.join(self.egg_info, ep.name))
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-38.7.0-py2.7.egg/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 604, in write_pkg_info
    metadata.write_pkg_info(cmd.egg_info)
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 1106, in write_pkg_info
    self.write_pkg_file(pkg_info)
  File "/home/asavah/kross/host/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-38.7.0-py2.7.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 76, in write_pkg_file
    file.write('%s: %s\n' % (field, attr_val))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc1' in position 23: ordinal not in range(128)

Setuptools 38.6.0 works fine.

Edit: python 3.6.4 + setuptools 38.7.0 also works fine.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:8 (6 by maintainers)

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pgansslecommented, Mar 17, 2018

Found the problem. On Python 2.7 there is an _encode_field function that is called in get_contact(), but I was looking at the current master branch’s implementation and couldn’t understand what was going on. PR incoming.

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jaracocommented, Mar 18, 2018

Release going out as v39.0.1. Please test and report back if a backport to v38 is required.

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