UniCodeDecodeError

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PS C:\Users\pappa> ipython
Python 2.7.5 |Anaconda 1.8.0 (64-bit)| (default, Jul  1 2013, 12:37:52) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 1.1.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.

In [1]: %install_ext http://raw.github.com/jrjohansson/version_information/master/version_information.py
Installed version_information.py. To use it, type:
  %load_ext version_information

In [2]: %load_ext version_information

In [3]: %version_information numpy, scipy, matplotlib, sympy
Out[3]: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
UnicodeDecodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-ea360486624a> in <module>()
----> 1 get_ipython().magic(u'version_information numpy, scipy, matplotlib, sympy')

C:\Users\pappa\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\displayhook.pyc in __call__(self, result)
    245             self.start_displayhook()
    246             self.write_output_prompt()
--> 247             format_dict, md_dict = self.compute_format_data(result)
    248             self.write_format_data(format_dict, md_dict)
    249             self.update_user_ns(result)

C:\Users\pappa\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\displayhook.pyc in compute_format_data(self, result)
    155
    156         """
--> 157         return self.shell.display_formatter.format(result)
    158
    159     def write_format_data(self, format_dict, md_dict=None):

C:\Users\pappa\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\formatters.pyc in format(self, obj, include, exclude)
    150             md = None
    151             try:
--> 152                 data = formatter(obj)
    153             except:
    154                 # FIXME: log the exception

C:\Users\pappa\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\formatters.pyc in __call__(self, obj)
    479                 type_pprinters=self.type_printers,
    480                 deferred_pprinters=self.deferred_printers)
--> 481             printer.pretty(obj)
    482             printer.flush()
    483             return stream.getvalue()

C:\Users\pappa\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\IPython\lib\pretty.pyc in pretty(self, obj)
    359                             meth = cls._repr_pretty_
    360                             if callable(meth):
--> 361                                 return meth(obj, self, cycle)
    362             return _default_pprint(obj, self, cycle)
    363         finally:

C:\Users\pappa\.ipython\extensions\version_information.py in _repr_pretty_(self, pp, cycle)
    170             text += "%s %s\n" % (name, version)
    171
--> 172         text += "\n%s" % time.strftime('%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z')
    173
    174         pp.text(text)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)

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