Error while upgrading pip: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte

Question

I\'ve just installed python on windows 10, and I\'m trying to upgrade pip.

My windows user name has hebrew charecters...

When I try to run:

Answer 1

It looks like a bug in pip where it's assuming its metadata is stored as UTF-8. Instead, your username appears to be encoded as "windows-1255".

You could try the following:

1. Backup C:\Users\עדי\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pkg_resources\__init__.py
2. Goto line: 1616
3. Change utf-8 to mbcs.
4. Re-run upgrade