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

[Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>]

[Andreas Tille, 2018-04-05]
> 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
> ...

in setup.py, if you decide to keep supporting Python 2, change lines 434-435 into:

  with open("README.rst", 'rb') as handle:
      readme_rst = handle.read().decode('UTF-8')

or if you finally let it go, change only line 434:

  with open("README.rst", encoding='UTF-8') as handle:
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