On 28 October 2017 at 22:41, Martin Schöön <martin.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems something is amiss with my Python 2.7 installation. Revisiting > Nikola (static web site generator written in Python) for the first time > in several years the other day I experience some unexpected problems. I > got some help form the Nikola people and the conclusion is something > is broken with my Python 2.7. Pip list throws exceptions at me while > pip3 list works the way I expect it to do. > > All this is happening on a Debian machine. > > Questions: > > Should I try to pinpoint what is broken (and how is that done) or should > I just remove everything Python 2.7 and re-install? > > Could mixing pip installs with Debian distro installs of Python > packages lead to conflicts or other problems?
Yes, it does, you should avoid that at all cost. The best way to do it is by using virtualenv. > Today I tried pip --version and got the following: > /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:1892: > UserWarning: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/rpl-1.5.5.egg-info could not > be properly decoded in UTF-8 > warnings.warn(msg) That’s a warning, and it happens to be caused by the `rpl` apt package. Remove it from your system and try `pip --version` again: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/3795 Now, onto fixing Nikola issues: As discussed on IRC, Nikola recommends (and will soon require) Python 3. And you’ll be better off with a virtualenv: install `virtualenv` from apt and follow the Getting started guide for Nikola: https://getnikola.com/getting-started.html If you still get unicode issues when compiling posts, make sure they’re saved as UTF-8, and that your locale is configured properly: https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2017/06/18/unix-locales-vs-unicode/ (Nikola’s co-maintainer over here.) -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
