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

[smyther]

Get this error when running ./comicstreamer

Afaik i have all deps installed - i'm running Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS

Thanks

[smyther]

Full traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "comicstreamer.py", line 5, in main() File "/mydir/ComicStreamer/comicstreamerlib/main.py", line 121, in main Launcher().go() File "/mydir/ComicStreamer/comicstreamerlib/main.py", line 72, in go config = ComicStreamerConfig() File "/mydir/ComicStreamer/comicstreamerlib/config.py", line 72, in init tmp = ConfigObj(self.filename, configspec=self.configspec, encoding=self.encoding) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1230, in init self._load(infile, configspec) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1327, in _load self._handle_configspec(configspec) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1919, in _handle_configspec _inspec=True) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1230, in init self._load(infile, configspec) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1290, in _load infile = self._handle_bom(infile) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/configobj.py", line 1445, in _handle_bom if not line.startswith(BOM): UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

[davide-romanini]

Check the settings file in ~/.ComicStreamer/settings. It seems not correctly utf-8 encoded. Eventually try deleting/moving it, comicstreamer will try to recreate it in that case.

[smyther]

Found the issue. Somehow i managed to install an older version of configobj..

Sorry about that!

[rlivre]

I Tried to install ComicStreamer yesterday and received the same error. Smyther's info about the old version of configobj made me think and so:

In my Linux Mint 17.2, the package confobj.py is installed by the system and it is stuck in version 4.7.2. I had to download version 5.0.6 from the pypi.python site and put it in /opt/comicstreamer/libs/ to make it work.