Watchdog: Watchdog v0.10.0 fails to install (UnicodeDecodeError): v0.9.0 works fine

[jgb]

Collecting watchdog>=0.6.0
  Downloading watchdog-0.10.0.tar.gz (94 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-xt0go193/watchdog/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-xt0go193/watchdog/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-xt0go193/watchdog/pip-egg-info
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-xt0go193/watchdog/
    Complete output (7 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-xt0go193/watchdog/setup.py", line 86, in <module>
        changelog = f.read()
      File "/usr/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 0xe2 in position 63: ordinal not in range(128)
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[tehkirill]

From https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0540/#locale-encoding-and-utf-8 :
"Python 3.6 uses the locale encoding... Many users inherit the ASCII encoding from the POSIX locale, aka the "C" locale"
I'd suggest trying:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 pip3.6 install watchdog

[antoinejaussoin]

From https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0540/#locale-encoding-and-utf-8 :
"Python 3.6 uses the locale encoding... Many users inherit the ASCII encoding from the POSIX locale, aka the "C" locale"
I'd suggest trying:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 pip3.6 install watchdog

I cannot thank you enough @tehkirill for the fix, we spent the morning trying to fix this and your fix works like a charm.

[jgb]

From https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0540/#locale-encoding-and-utf-8 :
"Python 3.6 uses the locale encoding... Many users inherit the ASCII encoding from the POSIX locale, aka the "C" locale"
I'd suggest trying:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 pip3.6 install watchdog

Why is this needed in v0.10.0 where it wasn't needed before? Also, I'm installing about 100 other requirements without needing said workaround.

[BoboTiG]

I cannot reproduce, even with LC_ALL=C python3 setup.py sdist. Do you have an idea how to reproduce?

Once I can reproduce, I will patch setup.py and @danilobellini will be able to do another release.

[tehkirill]

Why is this needed in v0.10.0 where it wasn't needed before? Also, I'm installing about 100 other requirements without needing said workaround.

There is a unicode character • in changelog.rst now

I cannot reproduce, even with LC_ALL=C python3 setup.py sdist. Do you have an idea how to reproduce?

Once I can reproduce, I will patch setup.py and @danilobellini will be able to do another release.

@BoboTiG is your python3 symlinked to python3.6 ? As it doesn't affect python3.7+ due to 'utf-8' enforcement.

In any case, specifying encoding with open('changelog.rst', encoding='utf-8') as f: in https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog/blob/master/setup.py#L85
should fix it.

[BoboTiG]

@tehkirill do you want to open a PR?

[tehkirill]

@BoboTiG opened #616