Topic on Manual talk:Pywikibot

Python version: v2.7.13

Using: Windows 10

I am following the installation guide on Manual:Pywikibot/Installation. But when I type the command:

'python pwb.py generate_user_files'

I get an error saying:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "pwb.py", line 177, in <module>

    import pywikibot

  File "C:\pywikibot\pywikibot\__init__.py", line 25, in <module>

    from pywikibot.bot import (

  File "C:\pywikibot\pywikibot\bot.py", line 97, in <module>

    from pywikibot import config2 as config

  File "C:\pywikibot\pywikibot\config2.py", line 392, in <module>

    base_dir = get_base_dir()

  File "C:\pywikibot\pywikibot\config2.py", line 345, in get_base_dir

    home = os.path.expanduser('~')

  File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 311, in expanduser

    return userhome + path[i:]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb9 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

What should I do to solve this error?

Hello, I'm not sure as I am not Windows user, but I guess:

a) this is a bug in Python v2.7.13

Then please try to upgrade your Python to 2.7.15 or 3.7.2 and try again

b) there is a problem in your environment variables or username (perhaps in diacritics or special characters?)

Then you could try to set one of PYWIKIBOT_DIR or PYWIKIBOT_DIR_PWB variables. Probably easiest way to overcome could be to use -dir:"my pywikibot dir" parameter.

If nothing helps, please send us python pwb.py version output.

Thank you for helping me, but nothing helps this error.

The output is:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "pwb.py", line 177, in <module>

    import pywikibot

  File "C:\pywikibot\pywikibot\__init__.py", line 25, in <module>

    from pywikibot.bot import (

  File "C:\pywikibot\pywikibot\bot.py", line 97, in <module>

    from pywikibot import config2 as config

  File "C:\pywikibot\pywikibot\config2.py", line 392, in <module>

    base_dir = get_base_dir()

  File "C:\pywikibot\pywikibot\config2.py", line 345, in get_base_dir

    home = os.path.expanduser('~')

  File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 311, in expanduser

    return userhome + path[i:]

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb9 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

It definitely seems to me like the setup fault, bad username, broken/outdated Python installation or broken PATH variable. Try to add your Pywikibot installation folder to PATH environment variable and then run only pwb.py generate_user_files or pwb.py version (without "python"). If this will not help too, maybe my Windows-experienced colleagues will know more than I do

I think it's bad username. Because my username was not in ascii. I changed my username, but I don't think it will solve the error.

I'm not a Windows expert but the stacktrace really suggests that the problem is in your environment (or Python version, depends on the point of view). So either update to Python 3, which handles non-ascii characters better or update your environment, so that the path to your home directory and your username don't contain them (PYWIKIBOT_DIR etc. seem not to be related to this specific problem).

Hello,

I get the same error when I try to generate_family_file for my website https://lagbt.wiwiland.net/ with python 3.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "generate_family_file.py", line 229, in <module>

   FamilyFileGenerator(*sys.argv[1:]).run()

  File "generate_family_file.py", line 55, in run

   w = self.Wiki(self.base_url)

  File "/home/goultard/piwikibot/core/pywikibot/site_detect.py", line 56, in __init__

   check_response(r)

  File "/home/goultard/piwikibot/core/pywikibot/site_detect.py", line 323, in check_response

   elif response.status == 200 and SERVER_DB_ERROR_MSG in response.text:

  File "/home/goultard/piwikibot/core/pywikibot/comms/threadedhttp.py", line 201, in text

   return self.decode(self.encoding)

  File "/home/goultard/piwikibot/core/pywikibot/comms/threadedhttp.py", line 185, in encoding

   raise self._encoding

  File "/home/goultard/piwikibot/core/pywikibot/comms/threadedhttp.py", line 167, in encoding

   self.raw.decode(self.header_encoding)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 16052: invalid continuation byte

CRITICAL: Exiting due to uncaught exception <class 'UnicodeDecodeError'>

Thanks you for your help

Your issue is different. I can reproduce it on my own PC. Would you please report it on Phabricator?

Also check if you have MediaWiki database of your wiki set properly

python3.8 pwb.py generate_user_files

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "pwb.py", line 182, in <module>

   if not check_modules():

  File "pwb.py", line 149, in check_modules

   from setup import dependencies

  File "/home/wojtek/core/setup.py", line 35, in <module>

   from setuptools import setup

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

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setuptools package is mandatory for pywikibot. Please install it with

pip install "setuptools>=20.2"

The pwb.py wrapper scripts warns about this since release Pywikibot 6.0.0