Problem installing spyder

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I am trying to install spyder directly without resorting to something anaconda or winpy. For this, I have installed python 2.7.13 and PyQt4. With that installed I tried to launch the command

pip install spyder

But I get the following error message:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc1 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

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Command "c:\python27\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='c:\users\lvarom~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-qnvhsd\scandir\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\lvarom~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-exbo4z-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\lvarom~1\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-qnvhsd\scandir\

I tried to install it from a .whl but with the same result

Does anyone know how to fix it?

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asked by Álvaro Méndez Civieta 23.06.2017 в 19:21

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It is an error related to the coding of text strings.

Python 2.7 does not use unicode by default ( read more ) and maybe your name in the route ( Á lvaro) is giving you errors.

Recommendations:

Use Python 3.x that formats the strings as unicode and if you're starting is recommended.
If you do not want to install all of Anaconda's packages, you have miniconda that only installs Python and to install spyder you just have to write in a command window conda install spyder . If you decide to use it, first uninstall the Python of windows you have to avoid problems.
Actually, PyCharm is an IDE with free community version and much more powerful / stable / mature than Spyder. The learning curve is a bit higher but it is very well documented and worth it.