"UnicodeDecodeError" during Pip install on certain Environments

[xlea99]

Just wanted to bring this issue up - on certain environments, it seems that running "pip install nocodb" failes with an error that looks something like:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 2436: character maps to <undefined>

Tracing it back, it seems the issue has to do with this line in setup.py lacking deliberate encoding:

long_description=open('README.md').read(),

I was able to resolve the issue by simply specifying UTF-8 encoding like so:

long_description=open('README.md', encoding='utf-8').read(),

And the pip install worked fine. Just wanted to let you know!

[yodaanneaux]

Thank you, @xlea99 for this tip!

Here, I am completing the answer for beginners (as I am). For Windows users:

1. Download the zip file.
2. Unpack it.
3. In the setup.py file, perform the modification as described above, then save it.
4. If you want to install python-nocodb on your C drive:
   4.1. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory: cd C:\nocodb\python-nocodb-master
   4.2. Install the package using pip: pip install .