Error while installing in certain system

[seminumber]

Installing design-bench using pip failed in certain system due to setup.py:

F = 'README.md'
with open(F, 'r') as readme:
    LONG_DESCRIPTION = readme.read()

Here's the traceback:

      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "******\setup.py", line 7, in <module>
          LONG_DESCRIPTION = readme.read()
      UnicodeDecodeError: 'cp949' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1798: illegal multibyte sequence

It seems the special characters in README.md cause the problem.

Here are a few solutions that may resolve the issue:

• Use the explicit long description instead of opening file
• Use open() with argument errors='ignore' so that encoding errors are ignored instead of raising error
• Use explicit encoding='...' that the file can be safely decoded in any platform and locale.

[brandontrabucco]

Hello seminumber,

Were you able to resolve this installation problem?