remove and reinstall base 1.0.4

[KipCarter]

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.