embiggen package error under Windoze

[Richard Bruskiewich]

The joy on installation on Windoze...

Collecting embiggen>=0.11.9
  Downloading embiggen-0.11.38.tar.gz (154 kB)
     ---------------------------------------- 154.2/154.2 kB ? eta 0:00:00
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [10 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "C:\cygwin64\tmp\pip-install-37lyy1_b\embiggen_3ec9ca91df6044b1b2470bb84cb6184d\setup.py", line 54, in <module>
          long_description=readme(),
        File "C:\cygwin64\tmp\pip-install-37lyy1_b\embiggen_3ec9ca91df6044b1b2470bb84cb6184d\setup.py", line 12, in readme
          return f.read()
        File "C:\Users\richa\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
          return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
      UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 2: character maps to <undefined>
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[Luca Cappelletti]

Hi! Thank you for reporting this issue!
The cause is likely some character in the package description that your system does not support. I will try to identify which one it is.

[Luca Cappelletti]

I may have fixed it!

Since I do not have access to any Windows machine, could I possibly ask you to join the Telegram or Discord groups to coordinate a test together?

[Richard Bruskiewich]

I may have fixed it!

Since I do not have access to any Windows machine, could I possibly ask you to join the Telegram or Discord groups to coordinate a test together?

LOL, what's Telegram or Discord?

I must be too close to retirement and kind of losing track of all these technical communication channels popping up...

[Luca Cappelletti]

From version 0.1.25, this issue should be resolved. Could you please try and let me know?

Thanks!

[Richard Bruskiewich]

Hi @LucaCappelletti94, I reran the poetry update and install. Things seem to work now. I'll let you know if anything else arises. Thanks!

Just to clarify, only my WSL2 installation of Ubuntu works in this respect. I guess I still need to wait for the ensmallen port to Windoze.

[Luca Cappelletti]

Hi Richard, in our tests also windows works. What error are you still encountering?