python 3 pip install non-ASCII payload error

pip, python, python-3.x

Solution

This is due to a bug in `Python-3.4.0b3`. This bug has been fixed 2014-02-07 18:30 (http://bugs.python.org/issue20531).

You can either use `Python-3.4.0rc1` or fix it by copying the `email` package over `Python 3.4.0b3` as confirmed in http://bugs.python.org/issue20531#msg210508.

I've just tested it with `Python-3.4.0rc1` on squeeze and the package was succesfully installed:

$ pip install django-floppyforms==1.1
Downloading/unpacking django-floppyforms==1.1
  Downloading django_floppyforms-1.1-py33-none-any.whl (51kB): 51kB downloaded
Installing collected packages: django-floppyforms
Successfully installed django-floppyforms

Problem

Using `python3.4` w/ `pip` trying to install `django-floppyforms==1.1` and got this `non-ASCII payload error`. I don't get this error with `python2.7`. What's going on? ``` Downloading/unpacking django-floppyforms==1.1 (from -r ../requirements/base.txt (line 22)) Downloading django_floppyforms-1.1-py33-none-any.whl (51kB): 51kB downloaded Cleaning up... Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/admin/.virtualenvs/py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 122, in main status = self.run(options, args) File "/home/admin/.virtualenvs/py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 274, in run requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle) File "/home/admin/.virtualenvs/py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/req.py", line 1206, in prepare_files for subreq in dist.requires(req_to_install.extras): File "/home/admin/.virtualenvs/py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources.py", line 2236, in requires dm = self._dep_map File "/home/admin/.virtualenvs/py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources.py", line 2429, in _dep_map self.__dep_map = self._compute_dependencies() File "/home/admin/.virtualenvs/py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources.py", line 2451, in _compute_dependencies for req in self._parsed_pkg_info.get_all('Requires-Dist') or []: File "/home/admin/.virtualenvs/py3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pkg_resources.py", line 2421, in _parsed_pkg_info self._pkg_info = Parser().parsestr(self.get_metadata(self.PKG_INFO)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/email/parser.py", line 70, in parsestr return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/email/parser.py", line 60, in parse return feedparser.close() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/email/feedparser.py", line 170, in close self._call_parse() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/email/feedparser.py", line 163, in _call_parse self._parse() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/email/feedparser.py", line 449, in _parsegen self._cur.set_payload(EMPTYSTRING.join(lines)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/email/message.py", line 311, in set_payload " payload") from None TypeError: charset argument must be specified when non-ASCII characters are used in the payload Storing debug log for failure in /tmp/tmpletnstcp ```

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