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Building Zip archive for python 3

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42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start with setup.py around line 46 and reproduce the failure using the documented clone, checkout, and python setup.py zip commands. Trace the archive hashing step and verify that the command completes successfully and produces the distribution archive without the UnicodeDecodeError.

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Description

Desired Behavior: python setup.py zip should create an archive with the distribution.
Actual Behavior: python setup.py zip raises an exception

With python version: Python 3.5.2 :: Anaconda custom (x86_64)
Steps to reproduce:

git clone https://github.com/clips/pattern.git
cd pattern && git checkout development
python setup.py zip

Output:

pattern-2.6.zip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 46, in <module>
    print(hashlib.sha256(open(z.filename).read()).hexdigest())
  File "/Users/jfairbanks6/anaconda/lib/python3.5/codecs.py", line 321, in decode
    (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 12: invalid start byte
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