UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb2 in position 59: invalid start byte

[Love is going on li]

wxPython-4.0.1

PyInstaller: 3.3.1
Python: 2.7.14
Windows-10-10.0.17134

Run the command

pyinstaller helloworld.py

Add Chinese path
..\test\dist\helloworld\  → ..test\dist\helloworld_测试\

Run

G:\python_project\python\gui_wxpython\test\dist\helloworld_测试>helloworld.exe

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "helloworld.py", line 13, in <module>

  File "site-packages\wx\core.py", line 2060, in __init__

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb2 in position 59: invalid start byte

[11712] Failed to execute script helloworld

G:\python_project\python\gui_wxpython\test\dist\helloworld_测试>

Can you help me? Thank you

[Robin Dunn]

On Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 8:34:18 AM UTC-7, Love is going on li wrote:

G:\python_project\python\gui_wxpython\test\dist\helloworld_测试>helloworld.exe

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "helloworld.py", line 13, in <module>

  File "site-packages\wx\core.py", line 2060, in __init__

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb2 in position 59: invalid start byte

[11712] Failed to execute script helloworld

G:\python_project\python\gui_wxpython\test\dist\helloworld_测试>

Can you help me? Thank you

That line is:

         wx.StandardPaths.Get().SetInstallPrefix(_sys.prefix)

SetInstallPrefix expects to get a unicode string, or something that can be converted to unicode using the utf-8 encoding. Since you are using Python2 then sys.prefix is likely a non-unicode string and it is probably encoded using the filesystem's default encoding, which isn't utf-8.  Please try replacing that line with this code and let us know if that takes care of the problem for you.

        prefix = _sys.prefix

        if isinstance(prefix, (bytes, bytearray)):

            prefix = prefix.decode(_sys.getfilesystemencoding())

        wx.StandardPaths.Get().SetInstallPrefix(prefix)

--

Robin

[Love is going on li]

Thank you very much for your help. I can run normally.