I also get the message for several projects. For example, Pyajam: $ pythoscope -t nose -i INFO: Inspecting module __init__.py. INFO: Inspecting module pyajam.py. ERROR: Oops, it seems that an internal Pythoscope error occurred. Please file a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/pythoscope Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/bin/pythoscope", line 8, in load_entry_point('pythoscope==0.4.3', 'console_scripts', 'pythoscope')() File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/__init__.py", line 184, in main init_project(project_path) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/__init__.py", line 112, in init_project inspect_project_statically(project) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/inspector/__init__.py", line 55, in inspect_project_statically return add_and_update_modules(project) + \ File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/inspector/__init__.py", line 37, in add_and_update_modules static.inspect_module(project, modpath) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/inspector/static.py", line 130, in inspect_module return inspect_code(project, path, read_file_contents(path)) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/inspector/static.py", line 139, in inspect_code visitor = descend(tree, ModuleVisitor) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/astvisitor.py", line 20, in descend visitor.visit(tree) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/astvisitor.py", line 155, in visit self.visit_node(tree) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/astvisitor.py", line 169, in visit_node getattr(self, method)(results) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/astvisitor.py", line 191, in _visit_all self.visit(results['nodes']) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/astvisitor.py", line 158, in visit self.visit(subtree) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/astvisitor.py", line 155, in visit self.visit_node(tree) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/astvisitor.py", line 169, in visit_node getattr(self, method)(results) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/astvisitor.py", line 196, in _visit_class body=results['body']) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/inspector/static.py", line 91, in visit_class methods = [create_definition(n, a, c, Method) for (n, a, c) in visitor.methods] File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/inspector/static.py", line 74, in create_definition is_generator=is_generator_definition(code)) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/inspector/static.py", line 66, in is_generator_definition return is_generator_code(function_code_from_definition(definition)) File "/home/lstep/workspace/GIT/PYAJAM/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pythoscope/inspector/static.py", line 52, in function_code_from_definition consts = compile_without_warnings(unindent(str(definition))).co_consts File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/pytree.py", line 237, in __str__ return unicode(self).encode("ascii") File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/pytree.py", line 280, in __unicode__ return u"".join(map(unicode, self.children)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/pytree.py", line 280, in __unicode__ return u"".join(map(unicode, self.children)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/pytree.py", line 280, in __unicode__ return u"".join(map(unicode, self.children)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/pytree.py", line 280, in __unicode__ return u"".join(map(unicode, self.children)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib2to3/pytree.py", line 391, in __unicode__ return self.prefix + unicode(self.value) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 4: ordinal not in range(128) Here attached is the pyajam.py file (or you can get it on https://github.com/lstep/PyAjam )