PyInstaller: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x87 in position 112: invalid start byte

Question

I was trying to convert my project to the exe with PyInstaller, I tried the solution on this link with two options: Error when using pyinstaller: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xff

Also tried this solution, changed all 'utf-8' encoding to the 'cp1252': UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x96 in position 35: invalid start byte

But it could not solve my issue:

An error occurred while packaging
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\auto_py_to_exe\packaging.py", line 131, in package
        run_pyinstaller()
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 114, in run
        run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 65, in run_build
        PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 734, in main
        build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 681, in build
        exec(code, spec_namespace)
      File "C:\Users\MFT\AppData\Local\Temp\tmplg5pykts\v7.spec", line 6, in <module>
        a = Analysis(['C:/Users/MFT/PycharmProjects/urunArayuz/v7.py'],
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 244, in __init__
        self.__postinit__()
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\datastruct.py", line 160, in __postinit__
        self.assemble()
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 422, in assemble
        self.graph.process_post_graph_hooks()
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\analysis.py", line 311, in process_post_graph_hooks
        module_hook.post_graph()
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\imphook.py", line 417, in post_graph
        self._load_hook_module()
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\depend\imphook.py", line 383, in _load_hook_module
        self._hook_module = importlib_load_source(
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\compat.py", line 797, in importlib_load_source
        return mod_loader.load_module()
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 462, in _check_name_wrapper
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 962, in load_module
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 787, in load_module
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 265, in _load_module_shim
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 702, in _load
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 783, in exec_module
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks\hook-zmq.py", line 20, in <module>
        hiddenimports = ['zmq.utils.garbage'] + collect_submodules('zmq.backend')
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\hooks\__init__.py", line 582, in collect_submodules
        names = exec_statement("""
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\hooks\__init__.py", line 85, in exec_statement
        return __exec_python_cmd(cmd)
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\hooks\__init__.py", line 74, in __exec_python_cmd
        txt = exec_python(*cmd, env=pp_env)
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\compat.py", line 641, in exec_python
        return exec_command(*cmdargs, **kwargs)
      File "c:\users\mft\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\compat.py", line 431, in exec_command
        out = out.decode(encoding, "replace")
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x87 in position 112: invalid start byte

Answer 1

It's interesting but, upgrading auto-py-to-exe solved my problem. I tried almost everything, but this basic solution was the one that made issue i guess...