Explicitly specify the encoding while reading the readme file.#5
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Apr 12, 2019
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| with open("README.md", "r") as fh: | ||
| long_description = fh.read() | ||
| with open("README.md", "rb") as fh: |
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You should specify the encoding directly in the open() call
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Since the readme file contains a Unicode character, on some systems such as docker container when the terminal encoding is not proper, the setup fails with the following error:
The error is generated while reading the readme file in setup.py
This pull request will resolve this issue. The proposed solution is tested for Python 2.7 and Python 3.5.