Re: Strange encoding problem in setup.py of biopython 1.71

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Olivier,

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:19:37PM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> 
> On 04/05/2018 04:10 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > (maybe?) setup.py:
> >
> >
> > ...
> > dh_auto_clean
> >         pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p 2.7
> > I: pybuild base:217: python2.7 setup.py clean 
> > running clean
> > removing '/home/andreas/debian-maintain/salsa/med-team/build-area/python-biopython-1.71+dfsg/.pybuild/cpython2_2.7/build' (and everything under it)
> > 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64' does not exist -- can't clean it
> > 'build/scripts-2.7' does not exist -- can't clean it
> >         pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p 3.6
> > I: pybuild base:217: python3.6 setup.py clean 
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "setup.py", line 435, in <module>
> >     readme_rst = handle.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 7116: ordinal not in range(128)
> > E: pybuild pybuild:336: clean: plugin distutils failed with: exit code=1: python3.6 setup.py clean 
> > dh_auto_clean: pybuild --clean -i python{version} -p 3.6 returned exit code 13
> this is usually related to non ascii characters in file (readme.rst?) ,
> if you find some, you can patch file to remove them.

Is there any efficient method to seek for this kind of non-ascii
characters?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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