AttributeError: object 'str' does not have attribute 'decode'

Question

I am going to install the ZeroMQ library on my computer using the pip package installer. I am using https://learning-0mq-with-pyzmq.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pyzmq/basics.html#installation as my link. After executing the follwing command:

pip install pyzmq-static 

I get this error:

 C:\Users\MyName>pip install pyzmq-static You are using pip version 7.0.1, however version 7.0.3 is available. You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command. Collecting pyzmq-static Using cached pyzmq-static-2.2.tar.gz Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 20, in <module> File "C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-m8zyvx48\pyzmq-static\ setup.py", line 6, in <module> long_description = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'README. rst') AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\MyName\ AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-m8zyvx48\pyzmq-static 

My python version is 3.5 and I am using Windows 8.0.

Update

I found that my article link used python 2.X and I am using python 3.5.

Answer 1

Why are you using pyzmq-static ? According to this link pyzmq-static deprecated, the last package for it was downloaded on 09/11/2012, it may not have been developed for python 3.x.

Instead, try using pyzmq (as indicated on the pypi page for pyzmq-static).