3.8.5 Failing To Install With pythonz

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On 2020-08-09 16:15, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I have a weird problem I could use a bit of help with ...
> 
> I have successfully installed 3.8.5 using pew/pythonz on a BSD FreeBSD system.
> But when I attempt to install it on a Linux system I get the traceback below.
> In this case, pew/pythonz were installed locally in my own account using system
> native python 3.6:
> 
> Installing CPython-3.8.5 into /home/tundra/.pythonz/pythons/CPython-3.8.5
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pythonz/installer/pythoninstaller.py", line 204, in install
>      self.make()
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pythonz/installer/pythoninstaller.py", line 350, in make
>      s.check_call(make)
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pythonz/util.py", line 294, in check_call
>      returncode = self.call(cmd)
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pythonz/util.py", line 286, in call
>      fp.write(line)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2018' in position 81: ordinal not in range(128)
> ERROR: Failed to install CPython-3.8.5. Check /home/tundra/.pythonz/log/build.log to see why.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/bin/pew", line 11, in <module>
>      sys.exit(pew())
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pew/pew.py", line 809, in pew
>      return command(sys.argv[2:])
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pew/pew.py", line 704, in install_cmd
>      return actual_installer.install()
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pythonz/installer/pythoninstaller.py", line 204, in install
>      self.make()
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pythonz/installer/pythoninstaller.py", line 350, in make
>      s.check_call(make)
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pythonz/util.py", line 294, in check_call
>      returncode = self.call(cmd)
>    File "/home/tundra/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pythonz/util.py", line 286, in call
>      fp.write(line)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2018' in position 81: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
> 
> Ideas anyone?
> 
FTR, '\u2018' is the codepoint 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK'.

Try reporting it on the project's homepage. It looks like there have 
been similar problems before, but not this one.