Pyinstaller error

[vipinv23]

Hello,

I am using pyinstaller to generate exe from py file but i am getting following error:


"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\users\a\appdata\local\programs\python\python35-32\lib\tokenize.py", line 392, in find_cookie
line_string = line.decode('utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa6 in position 0: invalid start byte

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
"

Please guide

[Axel_Erfurt]

which commando did you use?

[vipinv23]

Hello
i used
pyinstaller -f

and i also tried on
auto-py-to-exe

[snippsat]

Post your code.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa6 in position 0: invalid start byte

So code try to read something that utf-8 can not decode.
It can be that you should have defined encoding for it or it's just messy from start.

When mean define encoding i mean to us encoding parameter in open():

# Write to disk
ch = '全国政协十三届二次会议在京开幕'
with open('ch.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f_out:
    f_out.write(ch)

# Read from disk
with open('ch.txt', encoding='utf-8') as f:
    print(f.read()) # 全国政协十三届二次会议在京开

Some tips for fixing:

# Read from disk
with open('ch.txt', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as f:
    print(f.read()) 

>>> s = b'2018-03-26,HQ Service Center,Handset,Samsung Galaxy S9+ and Charger \xffBlack,1,Sales\r\n'
>>> s.decode('utf-8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 68: invalid start byte
'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 68: invalid start byte
 
>>> # Try other codec
>>> s.decode('latin-1')
'2018-03-26,HQ Service Center,Handset,Samsung Galaxy S9+ and Charger ÿBlack,1,Sales\r\n'
 
>>> # Just ignore error
>>> s.decode('utf-8', errors='ignore')
'2018-03-26,HQ Service Center,Handset,Samsung Galaxy S9+ and Charger Black,1,Sales\r\n'
 
>>> # Replace with fill in(?) where error is
>>> s.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
'2018-03-26,HQ Service Center,Handset,Samsung Galaxy S9+ and Charger �Black,1,Sales\r\n'