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

[Jakub Wilk]

* Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>, 2012-08-19, 13:16:
>>> 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'

It looks more like a bug in the package you're trying to install.

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

Well, no, in Python 2.X str does have attribute 'decode'. In Python 3.X, 
it doesn't.

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Jakub Wilk