Installing the python vk api

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Installing the python vk api

When installing vk_api on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS, an installation error occurs.

pip install vk_api
Collecting vk_api
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ac/c6/7ab7b58b00c6b06af38ce244515e4c6ad6b8fae0c00d4931c63bcdc803f3/vk_api-11.0.0.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-a21j4lkr/vk-api/setup.py", line 16, in <module>
        long_description = f.read()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
        return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 193: ordinal not in range(128)

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-a21j4lkr/vk-api/

What are the options to eliminate it

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python vkontakte-api pip

Author: Twiss, 2018-09-16

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score 2 · Accepted Answer

Try to install the library not via pip, but by downloading the archive with the library files and running the file setup.py https://github.com/python273/vk_api

If the error is the same, then at the beginning of setup.py add

import sys
from importlib import reload
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

This may help you

Https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18649512/unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte-0xe2-in-position-13-ordinal