pipreqs has the unicode Error under a virtualenv

Question

I tried to use pipeqs to generate requirements.txt in a virtual environment (virtualenv).

However, I got an error as follows:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 184: ordinal not in range(128)

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Then I tried:

pipreqs --encoding=utf-8

And still got the error saying:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xa4 in position 64: invalid start byte

Not sure anyone knows how to solve the issue.

Answer 1

I got exactly same error. Reading Theo answer, I figured workaround in venv

pipreqs --ignore bin,etc,include,lib,lib64