UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 on Windows

[Peter Pouliot]

Operating system is Windows 2012

The following output is generated during installation of pyopenssl using easy_install-2.7.

PS C:\Users\Administrator> easy_install-2.7.exe pyopenssl
Searching for pyopenssl
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/pyopenssl/
Best match: pyOpenSSL 0.13.1
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/2.7/p/pyOpenSSL/pyOpenSSL-0.13.1.win32-py2.7.exe#md5=02b016ed32fffcff56568e
5834edcae6
Processing pyOpenSSL-0.13.1.win32-py2.7.exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install-2.7-script.py", line 9, in
load_entry_point('setuptools==0.8', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install-2.7')()
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1992, in main
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1979, in with_ei_usage
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1996, in
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 380, in run
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 623, in easy_install
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 653, in install_item
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 815, in install_eggs
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 894, in install_exe
File "build\bdist.win32\egg\setuptools\command\easy_install.py", line 1513, in extract_wininst_cfg
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)

[Tiago Antao (tiagoantao)]

I can report the same problem on Python 2.6

[Sharon Ben Asher (sharon-ben-asher)]

I can report the same problem on win 7 x64 with 2.7.5
this error interferes with installation of google cloud cli utils (gsutil, bq)