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[MindVisualizer@gmail.com](https://code.google.com/u/MindVisualizer@gmail.com/) on 2011-10-23T12:38:10Z_\n\nI couldn't run all spyder  shortucts that I can find in my Start menu.\r\n\r\nand I got the following error when trying to launch spyder (console):\r\n\r\nC:\\Windows\\system32>C:\\Python27\\pythonw.exe \"C:\\Python27\\Scripts\\spyder\"\r\n\r\nC:\\Windows\\system32>C:\\Python27\\Scripts\\spyder.bat\r\nTraceback (most recent call last):\r\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\Scripts\\spyder\", line 2, in \\<module>\r\n    from spyderlib import spyder\r\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\spyderlib\\spyder.py\", line 99, in \\<module>\r\n\r\n    from spyderlib.plugins.editor import Editor\r\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\spyderlib\\plugins\\editor.py\", line 36, in\r\n\\<module>\r\n    from spyderlib.widgets.editor import (ReadWriteStatus, EncodingStatus,\r\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\spyderlib\\widgets\\editor.py\", line 29, in\r\n\\<module>\r\n    from spyderlib.utils.module_completion import moduleCompletion\r\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\spyderlib\\utils\\module_completion.py\", lin\r\ne 31, in \\<module>\r\n    db = PickleShareDB(MODULES_PATH)\r\n  File \"C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\spyderlib\\utils\\external\\pickleshare.py\",\r\nline 52, in __init__\r\n    self.root = Path(root).expanduser().abspath()\r\nUnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc8 in position 9: ordinal\r\nnot in range(128)\n\n_Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=812_"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/comments/74599256","html_url":"https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/812#issuecomment-74599256","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/812","id":74599256,"user":{"login":"spyder-issues-migrator","id":11021581,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11021581?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator","html_url":"https://github.com/spyder-issues-migrator","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/spyder-issues-migrator/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-17T00:48:18Z","updated_at":"2015-02-17T00:48:18Z","body":"_From [MindVisualizer@gmail.com](https://code.google.com/u/MindVisualizer@gmail.com/) on 2011-12-11T22:19:53Z_\n\n@-ccordoba12,\r\n\r\nI think comment 7 tells the source of the problem?"}}