Cannot install the package by pip due to some encoding error

[saulshao]

When I try to install the package via pip command, it generates the following error message:

Collecting pygetwindow (from pyautogui)
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f1/54/740939161eb3471e8f775ce9b0fcac0e54c36bf63501e51f2cd7158f587d/PyGetWindow-0.0.3.tar.gz
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "C:\Users******\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-wflouosi\pygetwindow\setup.py", line 11, in
long_description = fh.read()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa2 in position 905: illegal multibyte sequence

So I tried to modify the setup.py and change the line 11:
Original:
with open("README.md", "r") as fh: long_description = fh.read()
New:
with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh: long_description = fh.read()

It looks like this change can bypass the issue,

[zhongxiali]

I got the same error message when install via pip and python 3.7

[WangElysion]

But it is no use on my computer.....I have used python2.7.

[jtyoui]

因为要安装pyautogui，结果要先安装依赖PyGetWindow，然后pip install PyGetWindow报错。
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa2 in position 905: illegal multibyte sequence
我下载源码修改setup.py，将with open("README.md", "r") 修改成 with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8")。
使用wheel进行安装即可。
安装命令：
python setup.py bdist_wheel
pip install dist/*

[lovedva]

因为要安装pyautogui，结果要先安装依赖PyGetWindow，然后pip install PyGetWindow报错。
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa2 in position 905: illegal multibyte sequence
我下载源码修改setup.py，将with open("README.md", "r") 修改成 with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8")。
使用wheel进行安装即可。
安装命令：
python setup.py bdist_wheel
pip install dist/*
创建不了wheel，想在win7上装，然后发现完全不会用win的python

[jtyoui]

因为要安装pyautogui，结果要先安装依赖PyGetWindow，然后pip install PyGetWindow报错。
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa2 in position 905: illegal multibyte sequence
我下载源码修改setup.py，将with open("README.md", "r") 修改成 with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8")。
使用wheel进行安装即可。
安装命令：
python setup.py bdist_wheel
pip install dist/*
创建不了wheel，想在win7上装，然后发现完全不会用win的python
wheel是第三方库.先要安装.pip install wheel

[Crescent-Saturn]

因为要安装pyautogui，结果要先安装依赖PyGetWindow，然后pip install PyGetWindow报错。
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa2 in position 905: illegal multibyte sequence
我下载源码修改setup.py，将with open("README.md", "r") 修改成 with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8")。
使用wheel进行安装即可。
安装命令：
python setup.py bdist_wheel
pip install dist/*

谢谢你的方案，完美解决~
我也是安装pyautogui时遇到同样报错，发现是这个库报错，真希望UTF赶紧统一吧。。。
给跪了。。。

[mrchibbo]

excellent solustion, thanks!

[huhuang03]

因为要安装pyautogui，结果要先安装依赖PyGetWindow，然后pip install PyGetWindow报错。
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa2 in position 905: illegal multibyte sequence
我下载源码修改setup.py，将with open("README.md", "r") 修改成 with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8")。
使用wheel进行安装即可。
安装命令：
python setup.py bdist_wheel
pip install dist/*

谢谢你的方案，完美解决~
我也是安装pyautogui时遇到同样报错，发现是这个库报错，真希望UTF赶紧统一吧。。。
给跪了。。。

可以使用pip install -e 项目路径，快捷安装

[imbillow]

why not merge? I see it has some pr to fix the problem.

[alexlausz]

因为要安装pyautogui，结果要先安装依赖PyGetWindow，然后pip install PyGetWindow报错。
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa2 in position 905: illegal multibyte sequence
我下载源码修改setup.py，将with open("README.md", "r") 修改成 with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8")。
使用wheel进行安装即可。
安装命令：
python setup.py bdist_wheel
pip install dist/*

我在32位python下用此方法安装pygetwindow版本0.04不行，0.03版本可以