Python3 and its messed up modules which cannot even get installed properly

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Nov 17 09:42:25 EST 2013


On 17/11/2013 14:17, Nikos wrote:
> ======================================================
> root at secure [~/distribute-0.6.49]# pip install pygeoip
> Downloading/unpacking pygeoip
> Downloading pygeoip-0.3.0.tar.gz (97kB): 97kB downloaded
> Running setup.py egg_info for package pygeoip
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
> File "/usr/lib/python3.3/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
> return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> 1098: ordinal not in range(128)
> Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
>
> File "/usr/lib/python3.3/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
>
> return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
> 1098: ordinal not in range(128)
> ======================================================
>
>
> Not only the fucking thing is so trouble to install but now we have to
> the damn module ourselves.
>

May I most humbly suggest that you stop this behaviour before she gets 
extremely angry and completely destroys your web site, rather than 
simply change one or two pieces of data.

Incidentally I do like your signature "What is now proved was at first 
only imagined!".  This perfectly summarises your posting over the last 
couple of hours.

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence




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