On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 23:13:49 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jan 26, 2016, at 01:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >That's not the problem at all. Read the error message again. Read the > >source line it points to. Now look at where rv comes from: > > > >>>> import subprocess > >>>> rv = subprocess.Popen(['locale', '-a'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, > >... stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0] > >>>> type(rv) > ><class 'bytes'> > > For Python 3, try adding `universal_newlines=True` to any subprocess call. > You'll get back a str. > Or a UnicodeDecodeError.
Cheers, Julien