id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 90 python: (2.7.6) problem determining filesystem encoding Lewis Rosenthal Yuri Dario "This is tangentially related to getting SSL support for yum repos, so I'll open this here. Frankly, python is so complex that we should probably break it out into its own project, here, but I'll leave that to you, Yuri. ;-) I needed to install M2Crypto as I am having difficulty accessing my repo mirror via SSL (different ticket - to be created). M2Crypto seems to want to be installed via setuptools. Installing setuptools should be fairly straightforward: {{{ wget --no-check-certificate https://bootstrap.pypa.io/ez_setup.py -O - | python }}} however, once the installation starts, the fun begins: {{{ Extracting in c:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs Now working in c:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6 Installing Setuptools running install running bdist_egg running egg_info writing requirements to setuptools.egg-info/requires.txt writing setuptools.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing top-level names to setuptools.egg-info/top_level.txt writing dependency_links to setuptools.egg-info/dependency_links.txt writing entry points to setuptools.egg-info/entry_points.txt Traceback (most recent call last): File ""setup.py"", line 219, in dist = setuptools.setup(**setup_params) File ""J:/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py"", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File ""J:/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py"", line 953, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File ""J:/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py"", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/install.py"", line 67, in run self.do_egg_install() File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/install.py"", line 109, in do_egg_install self.run_command('bdist_egg') File ""J:/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py"", line 326, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File ""J:/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py"", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py"", line 152, in run self.run_command(""egg_info"") File ""J:/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py"", line 326, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File ""J:/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py"", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/egg_info.py"", line 168, in run self.find_sources() File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/egg_info.py"", line 193, in find_sources mm.run() File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/egg_info.py"", line 277, in run self.add_defaults() File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/egg_info.py"", line 306, in add_defaults sdist.add_defaults(self) File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/sdist.py"", line 151, in add_defaults self.filelist.append(fn) File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/egg_info.py"", line 220, in append if self._safe_path(path): File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/command/egg_info.py"", line 240, in _safe_path u_path = unicode_utils.filesys_decode(path) File ""C:/var/temp/tmpcqr6rs/setuptools-5.6/setuptools/unicode_utils.py"", line 31, in filesys_decode return path.decode(enc) TypeError: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None Something went wrong during the installation. See the error message above. }}} Looking at the section in question in unicode_utils.py, he see: {{{ def filesys_decode(path): """""" Ensure that the given path is decoded, NONE when no expected encoding works """""" fs_enc = sys.getfilesystemencoding() if isinstance(path, decoded_string): return path for enc in (fs_enc, ""utf-8""): try: return path.decode(enc) except UnicodeDecodeError: continue }}} Result: cannot install setuptools. I've tried this under a variety of shells, too, but to no avail. Filesystem is JFS." defect closed Feedback Pending python highest duplicate