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I'm having issues with base 1.0.4, so I thought that I would remove it and reinstall it.

The only version of base I see is what I've found on Pypi. It appears to be a dependency for pandas, requets, and msqldb; among others. The setup folder is included in a gz archive and when I unpack it and try to install over what I have I get this.

Output:
python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 40, in <module>
    LONG_DESCRIPTION = read("README.rst")
  File "setup.py", line 21, in read
    return codecs.open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()
  File "C:\Python\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 23, in decode
    return codecs.charmap_decode(input,self.errors,decoding_table)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x81 in position 5: character maps to <undefined>

I'm not sure if removing it will allow me to install it properly, but because I am so new to Python I have no clue how to uninstall something manually installed instead of using PIP.

Alternatively, if there is something I can do to make this install over the past installation, I'd be up for that as well.

I am guessing that it might install properly doing a clean setup, but then a guess is all that is.

I've come by using 'base' due to installing pandas and have had problems doing things with pandas related to base.

Is base installed now?
if not try:
pip install base --upgrade
or
pip install --upgrade base

Joe,
Thanks for the feed back.

One major roadblock we have here for Python development is that we can't use functions like --upgrade. The corporate firewall rules disallow automated downloads from the web. we can initate them manually, but if they are automated we get things like this...

Output:
pip install base --upgrade
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ConnectTimeoutError(<pip._vendor.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x04E17E10>, 'Connection to pypi.org timed out. (connect timeout=15)')': /simple/base/

Hence I have to do a lot of Whl files and setup folder downloads to get to the same place others can just do a 'pip install newstuff'.

This isn't network latency, it is network blockage. I'd be glad to do an upgrade of base if I could get some guidance on how to go about that.

I may have to completely remove 3.6 from my machine and start over fresh. I think in my ignorance, attempting to work around our firewall rules I may have messed up one or more of the modules I added to my python deployment. I am really considering it, but hate to lose all the progress I have made thus far.