UnicodeDecodeError : 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

On one of my machines I have the error when I am working with google apps engine or django.

For example:

• app.yaml

  application: demas         
  
  
          

Answer 1

An alternative solution from python issue9291 by Alexandr Zarubkin (me21):

add file named sitecustomize.py in Lib\site-packages folder.

import sys
sys.setdefaultencoding("cp1251")