[moin-user] more general problem with utf-8 codec?

[Paul Boddie]

On Wednesday 22. January 2020 08.07.48 mariusz sapinski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the problem with codecs for moin continue and I don't find a solution.
> System: Ubuntu 19.10, moin 1.9.9
> Attempt to upgrade moin:
> Below is the output of the upgrade command.
> 
>    Best regards, Mariusz
> 
> Output:
> sudo pip install moin --upgrade

I am hoping that you can upgrade Moin in this way, not having looked at Moin 
with pip for a long time, if ever.

> [sudo] password for sapinski:
> Collecting moin
>   Using cached
> https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/db/c4/58872c31f3c242c2cec3a35f493628
> 182979b664645858dafba4071b9cb5/moin-1.9.10.tar.gz Complete output from
> command python setup.py egg_info:
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>       File "/tmp/pip-install-ezJOdL/moin/setup.py", line 355, in <module>
>         setup(**setup_args)
>       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 124, in setup
>         dist.parse_config_files()
>       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 697,
> in parse_config_files
>         self._parse_config_files(filenames=filenames)
>       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 594,
> in _parse_config_files
>         (parser.read_file if six.PY3 else parser.readfp)(reader)
>       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 324, in readfp
>         self._read(fp, filename)
>       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 479, in _read
>         line = fp.readline()
>       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/codecs.py", line 314, in decode
>         (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
>     UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xfc in position 57:
> invalid start byte

Do you know what it is trying to read here? Maybe there is a list of 
configuration files in the setup.py script or setup.cfg.

It looks like ConfigParser has been given a file object by distutils that has 
been opened by something like codecs.open. That isn't a problem - it is how I 
open files in Python 2 and read Unicode out of them - but it seems as if 
something expects UTF-8 and the file contains something else.

Paul