Error when using pyinstaller: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff

Question

I have an issue when i compile a PyQt code with pyinstaller.

I use this line to compile:

c:\\Anaconda3\\Scripts\\pyinstaller.exe -y -F --distpath=\".         


        

Answer 1

Changing compat.py works for me: out = out.decode(encoding, "replace")

This is a known problem on pyinstaller and the developers are working on it. https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/pull/3895

I hope this bug will solved on the next update.