Error: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa6 in position 4: illegal multibyte sequence

[paladinlp]

Describe the bug Im trying to install LangFlow with pip but i get an error

Browser and Version

• Win 10

• VS Code - most recent version

• pip 23.1 from C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.10)

• Python 3.10

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

• pip install langflow

• installation fails

error : Getting requirements to build wheel ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [17 lines of output] Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\test\anaconda3\envs\langflow\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 353, in main() File "C:\Users\test\anaconda3\envs\langflow\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 335, in main json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs']) File "C:\Users\test\anaconda3\envs\langflow\lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return hook(config_settings) File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-6sipyj6r\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 341, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel']) File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-6sipyj6r\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 323, in _get_build_requires self.run_setup() File "C:\Users\test\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-6sipyj6r\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 338, in run_setup exec(code, locals()) File "", line 6, in File "C:\Users\test\anaconda3\envs\langflow\lib\pathlib.py", line 1135, in read_text return f.read() UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0xa6 in position 4: illegal multibyte sequence [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

[lxl876]

You can try setting the system variable PYTHONUTF8=1, it might help @paladinlp

[RuthlessXdream]

@lxl876 Thank you for your help. The problem has been solved.