On Wed, 09 Sep 2015 09:13:41 +0100, Tim Golden wrote: > On 09/09/2015 08:59, Laszlo Lebrun via Python-list wrote: >> On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 23:35:33 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> >>> On 08/09/2015 20:14, Laszlo Lebrun via Python-list wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear group, >>>> I do use Windows 7 and have a user name with diacritics. >>>> >>>> Whenever I am querying an extension with pip, it will fail since it >>>> does not pass on the user folder correctly. >>>> I thought PIP deals well with unicode, doesn't it? > >> Yes, you are right, let me append the message. >> Just after a fresh install of Python with PIP on Windows. >> Whenever I start PIP, I get: >> "Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"C:\Users >> \B├╝rgerGegenFlugl├ñrm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32 >> \python.exe" >> "C:\Users\B³rgerGegenFluglõrm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python >> \Python35-32\Scripts\pip.exe" '" >> >> Where the correct path is "C:\Users\BürgerGegenFluglärm\AppData..." >> >> The funny thing is that the message mentions the path twice, with >> different wrong codings. >> :-( >> >> > What version of pip are you using? Since (from the path) I guess you > have a 32-bit version of Python 3.5, I assume it's the version which was > installed with that but just check: > > pip --version > Sorry I can't even execute that one. I keep getting the weird error message. But I just downloaded it 3 days ago, so it should be the current one.
> Hopefully someone here can help, but in fact pip is not part of core > Python: the ensurepip mechanism (which *is* part of core Python) > bootstraps a recent version of pip but it's maintained elsewhere. > > So you may need to raise this as a bug on the Pip tracker: > > https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues > done. Thank you. -- Stand up against TTIP and ISDS ! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
