Pip failed to install maya on Windows

Tried to install, failed with a UnicodeDecodeError. Changed the terminal encoding to UTF-8, problem persisted. Am I doing something wrong? I’m using Windows 10, 64 bits, with Python 3.5.

C:\Windows\system32>pip install maya
Collecting maya
  Downloading maya-0.1.0.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\BoppreH\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-cuz437_p\maya\setup.py", line 26, in <module>
        long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
      File "c:\program files\python35\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 2172: character maps to <undefined>

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\BoppreH\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-cuz437_p\maya\

C:\Windows\system32>chcp 65001
Active code page: 65001

C:\Windows\system32>pip install maya
Collecting maya
  Using cached maya-0.1.0.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\BoppreH\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-044jp0hk\maya\setup.py", line 26, in <module>
        long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
      File "c:\program files\python35\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 2172: character maps to <undefined>

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\BoppreH\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-044jp0hk\maya\

[fruch]

I’ve seen this type of issues before, it cause you are using emojis in your readme, change the open to be open with Unicode support…

[rhosbach]

This issue may need to be reopened. My environment is using Python 3.6.5 on Windows 10, 64 bits. I just attempted to pip install maya 0.6.1 and 0.6.0 and I was getting the same sort of UTF-8 issue:

ERROR: Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\cli\base_command.py", line 178, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\commands\install.py", line 352, in run resolver.resolve(requirement_set) File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolve.py", line 131, in resolve self._resolve_one(requirement_set, req) File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolve.py", line 294, in _resolve_one abstract_dist = self._get_abstract_dist_for(req_to_install) File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\resolve.py", line 242, in _get_abstract_dist_for self.require_hashes File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\operations\prepare.py", line 362, in prepare_linked_requirement abstract_dist.prep_for_dist(finder, self.build_isolation) File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\operations\prepare.py", line 171, in prep_for_dist self.req.prepare_metadata() File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\req\req_install.py", line 553, in prepare_metadata metadata_name = canonicalize_name(self.metadata["Name"]) File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\req\req_install.py", line 674, in metadata self._metadata = get_metadata(self.get_dist()) File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_internal\utils\packaging.py", line 48, in get_metadata metadata = dist.get_metadata('METADATA') File "c:\users\rahosbach\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pkg_resources\__init__.py", line 1420, in get_metadata return value.decode('utf-8') if six.PY3 else value UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 185: invalid continuation byte

I was able to install version 0.5.0 properly, though.