Re: mkdocs locale error building djangorestframework

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 23:13:49 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2016, at 01:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> >That's not the problem at all.  Read the error message again.  Read the
> >source line it points to.  Now look at where rv comes from:
> >
> >>>> import subprocess
> >>>> rv = subprocess.Popen(['locale', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,  
> >...                       stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
> >>>> type(rv)  
> ><class 'bytes'>
> 
> For Python 3, try adding `universal_newlines=True` to any subprocess call.
> You'll get back a str.
> 
Or a UnicodeDecodeError.

Cheers,
Julien