An issue when I installed "autodp": Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error

[QuinKang]

The following issue occurred when I installed “autodp” by "pip install autodp" and I'm not sure how to solve it.

Collecting autodp
Using cached autodp-0.2.3.1.tar.gz (56 kB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [6 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 2, in
File "", line 34, in
File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-c9_gcmpt\autodp_184d6ab919d64a7f98792f3b252bbe16\setup.py", line 9, in
long_description = f.read()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'gbk' codec can't decode byte 0x9a in position 3594: illegal multibyte sequence
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[yuxiangw]

hmmm... this seems to be a windows problem. I haven't tested it on windows. We will look into it. For now, could you try a local installation using the master branch to see if the issue remains?

[phycholosogy]

Thanks for the response! @yuxiangw I encountered the same issue when installing on Windows. This seems to be because when reading a file in setup.py, the encoding format was not specified as utf-8. I modified the 8th line in setup.py in autodp-0.2.3.1.tar.gz as following and I successfully installed locally:
with open("README.md", 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
If convenient, could you please make the same modifications in the new version to facilitate installation on Windows?
Thank you very much, best wishes!