Unicodedecodeerror with runserver

Question

After setting up all what django requires, I tried the runserver command and I caught an error:

UnicodeDecodeError

Answer 1

This sounds like this Python issue. If your computer name has non-ASCII characters this will fail. You may:

1. Issue the runserver command with explicit host and port: python manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8000
2. Change your computer name to a string that only contains ASCII characters.