This seems to be a typical py2 py3 transition utf-8 error. I personally encountered before/ some googling and stackoverflow reading should solve your problem.
On Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 2:52:51 AM UTC-8, Maurice Waka wrote: > > I'm shifting my app to python3.6. > When trying to edit from admin, I get this error; > Traceback > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/gluon/restricted.py", line 219, in > restricted > exec(ccode, environment) > File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py" > <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/admin/controllers/default.py>, > line 2012, in <module> > File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/gluon/globals.py", line 421, in <lambda> > self._caller = lambda f: f() > File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py" > <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/admin/controllers/default.py>, > line 1140, in design > data = safe_read(apath('%s/views/%s' % (app, c), r=request)) > File "/home/mauricewaka/web2py/applications/admin/controllers/default.py" > <http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/default/edit/admin/controllers/default.py>, > line 95, in safe_read > return safe_file.read() > File "/usr/lib/python3.6/codecs.py", line 321, in decode > (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: > invalid start byte > > > I downloaded the latest web2py before installing my app. > Regards > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

