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  • 1.  Installing AWS CLI on USS z/OS gives SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code

    Posted 08-08-2017 23:39

    Hello,
    AWS requires Python 3.3+ as per instructions here
    docs aws amazon com cli latest userguide awscli-install-bundle

    I installed Python 3.6.1 release 2017-04-10 successfully.
    Nonetheless, when installing AWS CLI, I receive:

    python3 . awscli-bundle install -b ~ bin aws
    Running cmd: u ibmuser python python-2017-04-12-py36 python36 bin python virtualenv py --python u ibmuser python python-2017-04-12-py36 python36 bin python
    ibmuser .local lib aws
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “. awscli-bundle install”, line 138, in
    main()
    File “. awscli-bundle install”, line 128, in main
    create_install_structure(working_dir, opts.install_dir)
    File “. awscli-bundle install”, line 64, in create_install_structure
    _create_virtualenv(location=install_dir, working_dir=working_dir)
    File “. awscli-bundle install”, line 81, in _create_virtualenv
    location))
    File “. awscli-bundle install”, line 44, in run
    p.returncode, cmd, stdout + stderr))
    main.BadRCError: Bad rc (1) for cmd ’ u ibmuser python python-2017-04-12-py36 python36 bin python virtualenv py --python u ibmuser python python-2017-04-
    -py36 python36 bin python u ibmuser .local lib aws’: b’ File “virtualenv py”, line 1 nSyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with ’ x83 ’ in file virtualenv py on line 1, but no encoding declared n’

    It looks like Python is not able to read one of the Python file: virtualenv py
    Thanks, Phil



  • 2.  RE: Installing AWS CLI on USS z/OS gives SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code

    ROCKETEER
    Posted 02-10-2021 08:55
    Hi Phil,

    I just happen to cross your post. I recently installed AWS CLI on my machine, and I didn't have python installed already. During the AWS CLI installation, it automatically detected the absence of python and installed the compatible version for me. Maybe you could try uninstalling python first, and then install aws, so that it could install the suitable version on your machine.

    Hope this helps in resolving the issue(in case you are still struggling with it)

    Regards,
    Ashish

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    Ashish Ramtri
    Software Engineer - 1
    Rocket Software
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