[Python-modules-team] Bug#685302: python3-pip: Fails to be able to install packages from PyPI

[Russel Winder]

Package: python3-pip
Version: 1.1-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

>> pip-3.2 install html
Downloading/unpacking html
  Running setup.py egg_info for package html
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
      File "/root/build/html/setup.py", line 12, in <module>
        long_description = __doc__.decode('utf8'),
    AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 14, in <module>

  File "/root/build/html/setup.py", line 12, in <module>

    long_description = __doc__.decode('utf8'),

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /root/build/html
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log


My guess is that when running setup.py it does so with /usr/bin/python instead of /usr/bin/python3


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=str=こんにちわ世界, bytes_read=21, bytes_written=21) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python3-pip depends on:
ii  python3                3.2.3-5
ii  python3-pkg-resources  0.6.24-1
ii  python3-setuptools     0.6.24-1
ii  python3.2              3.2.3-3

Versions of packages python3-pip recommends:
ii  build-essential  11.5
ii  python3-dev      3.2.3-5

python3-pip suggests no packages.

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