Not compatible with a directory having emojis in its path
yadavankit opened this issue · 11 comments
Am getting this Traceback when running virtualenv venv to create a virtualenv in a directory having emojis etc in its path -
New python executable in /Users/WARL0CK/✮✮Python✮✮/evalai/venv/bin/python2.7 Also creating executable in /Users/WARL0CK/✮✮Python✮✮/evalai/venv/bin/python Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 15: ordinal not in range(128) ERROR: The executable /Users/WARL0CK/✮✮Python✮✮/evalai/venv/bin/python2.7 is not functioning ERROR: It thinks sys.prefix is u'/Users/WARL0CK/\u272e\u272ePython\u272e\u272e/evalai' (should be u'/Users/WARL0CK/\u272e\u272ePython\u272e\u272e/evalai/venv') ERROR: virtualenv is not compatible with this system or executable
Extra Info : Am running this on MacOS Sierra
... which as noted in that PR, is stalled on being refactored out into separate PRs.
I'm not completely convinced that #900 is related, but it might be worth a try. Although honestly, I'd be more inclined to suggest renaming the directory to not include emojis in the name - Python 2's Unicode support isn't something I'd like to trust with that type of stress... 😉
Any hope of fixing this?
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Still no good.
According to a comment on #53 (comment), it appears this bug is fixed by pip 10.0.0, released 2018-04-14. @melikyuksel , did you test this issue using pip 10.0.0?
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This is not just about emojis, also about internationalization support. Gnome by default creates directories with Swedish names on a Swedish locale. So for example the Downloads dir is called Hämtningar.
I just encountered this issue trying to create a virtualenv in the directory Hämtningar.
There is a proposed PR further up in comments, I haven't looked at it but you'd think that by 2019 Python should be able to handle this.
The workaround is of course simple, just avoid using the directory for now.
Will address this part of #697
Duplicate of #457