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

[Klaus Zimmermann <klaus_zimmermann@gmx.de>]

Hi Andreas,

here, the culprit is
U+2019 : RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK {single comma quotation mark}
that is used as an apostrophe in two places in "Apple's".

I found this by looking for 0xe2 (from your error message) in an hexdump
(od -A d -xc README.rst |less ) at the named position (7116).

Cheers
Klaus


On 05/04/18 16:34, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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.
>