[BUG]: GPT Pilot Exiting with Error

[PierrunoYT]

Version

VisualStudio Code extension

Operating System

Windows 11

What happened?

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot\main.py", line 79, in project.start()

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot\helpers\Project.py", line 141, in start self.developer.start_coding()

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot\helpers\agents\Developer.py", line 70, in start_coding self.implement_task(i, dev_task)

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot\helpers\agents\Developer.py", line 91, in implement_task convo_dev_task.send_message('development/task/breakdown.prompt', {

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot\helpers\AgentConvo.py", line 111, in send_message self.log_message(message_content)

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot\helpers\AgentConvo.py", line 246, in log_message print(f"\n{content}\n", type='local')

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot\utils\custom_print.py", line 16, in print_to_external_process local_print(*args, **kwargs)

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot\utils\custom_print.py", line 33, in local_print built_in_print(message, **kwargs)

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot-env\Lib\site-packages\colorama\ansitowin32.py", line 47, in write self.__convertor.write(text)

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot-env\Lib\site-packages\colorama\ansitowin32.py", line 177, in write self.write_and_convert(text)

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot-env\Lib\site-packages\colorama\ansitowin32.py", line 205, in write_and_convert self.write_plain_text(text, cursor, len(text))

File "c:\Users\pierr\gpt-pilot\pilot-env\Lib\site-packages\colorama\ansitowin32.py", line 210, in write_plain_text self.wrapped.write(text[start:end])

File "C:\Users\pierr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 876-878: character maps to

[senko]

One possible workaround discovered by @PierrunoYT (thanks!):

Modify gpt-pilot\pilot\utils\custom_print.py:

1. At the top of the file, add import sys as the first line

2. In line 33, replace this:

           built_in_print(message, **kwargs)
   

   with

           sys.stdout.buffer.write((message + "\n").encode("utf-8"))
   

[senko]

This is likely caused by https://github.com/tartley/colorama/issues/219

[senko]

@PierrunoYT @someaka @Bengan1 how did you install Python on your machine, and which version of Python do you have?

Eg. from Microsoft Store, download from Python.org, Anaconda, or some other way?

[senko]

For context: if the Python installation is using encoding other than "utf-8" for its stdout, colorama will fail with the above message because the encoding in question doesn't support emojis/symbols.

What makes it strange is that Python 3.7+ should use UTF-8 by default on Windows. I tested this with both Python downloaded from MS Store (3.12.1) and Python.org website (3.12.0). Both were using UTF-8 by default.

[senko]

Another potential fix is replacing this:

https://github.com/Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot/blob/21eb28ff1b5fa38c2f921d01df7933f69b2dd0bc/pilot/utils/style.py#L6

with:

colorama.just_fix_windows_console()

which, hopefully, is less intrusive and won't trigger the problem (relevant info from colorama README).

[karolsowi]

Applied both workarounds and it worked.