New submission from Dima Tisnek: One of my students installed Python 3.5 on Windows 10 to default location where user name "Łukasz" contains unicode.
Now "-m venv" and "-m ensurepip" do not work: C:\Users\Łukasz>C:\Users\Łukasz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\python.exe -m venv workshops Error: Command '['C:\\Users\\\u0141ukasz\\workshops\\Scripts\\python.exe', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1 C:\Users\Łukasz>C:\Users\Łukasz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\python.exe -m ensurepip Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\\u0141ukasz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\runpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main "__main__", mod_spec) File "C:\Users\\u0141ukasz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "C:\Users\\u0141ukasz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\ensurepip\__main__.py", line 4, in <module> ensurepip._main() File "C:\Users\\u0141ukasz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\ensurepip\__init__.py", line 209, in _main default_pip=args.default_pip, File "C:\Users\\u0141ukasz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\ensurepip\__init__.py", line 116, in bootstrap _run_pip(args + [p[0] for p in _PROJECTS], additional_paths) File "C:\Users\\u0141ukasz\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\ensurepip\__init__.py", line 40, in _run_pip import pip File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 954, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 896, in _find_spec File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1136, in find_spec File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1112, in _get_spec File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1093, in _legacy_get_spec File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 444, in spec_from_loader File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 530, in spec_from_file_location UnicodeEncodeError: 'mbcs' codec can't encode characters in position 0--1: invalid character ---------- components: Unicode messages: 255534 nosy: Dima.Tisnek, ezio.melotti, haypo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: ensurepip/venv broken on Windows if path includes unicode versions: Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25758> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com