[issue42293] Installation of pyinstaller in Windows fails with utf8 error

Paul Moore added the comment: I've raised https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9135 for this. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bu

[issue42293] Installation of pyinstaller in Windows fails with utf8 error

giomach added the comment: I'm not sure whose responsibility it is to take this to the "pip tracker", but as a newcomer to the python environment I know nothing about that process, so it would be appreciated if some of the other people here would be kind enough to do this. -- _

[issue42293] Installation of pyinstaller in Windows fails with utf8 error

Paul Moore added the comment: Erik is correct, this is a pip bug. Please raise an issue on the pip tracker linking to this issue and we can fix it. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue42293] Installation of pyinstaller in Windows fails with utf8 error

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: A 'crash' is when the program hangs or stops unexpectedly *without* an Exception and message. Lib/site-packages/sitecustomize.py is an optional added module. https://docs.python.org/3/library/site.html#index-5 Apparently, attempted installation of pyinstaller

[issue42293] Installation of pyinstaller in Windows fails with utf8 error

Eryk Sun added the comment: This looks to be a bug in the constructor of pip's BuildEnvironment class: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/a4f4bfbf8ba7fd1e60884a439907e3f2a32e117a/src/pip/_internal/build_env.py#L82 Python 3 source files are UTF-8 by default, but text files default to the platfo

[issue42293] Installation of pyinstaller in Windows fails with utf8 error

New submission from giomach : Python 3.9 freshly installed in Windows 10 to C:\Program Files\Python39, everything done as administrator, installed for all users, added to PATH. Installation of pyinstaller fails with message "SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in