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I'm getting this error when I'm trying to install "pyautogui" library to python. Please find the details below - 

ERROR: Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "################\pip-install-pmckiy\pygetwindow\setup.py", line 10, in <module>
with open('README.md', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fh:
TypeError: 'encoding' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in c:\################\pip-install-pmckiy\pygetwindow\

Python Version - 2.7.12

Things I have already tried -

1.) I have upgraded the pip, current version - pip 19.1.1

2.) I also followed the steps as given in this another answer

"pip install unroll": "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1

3.) Since this is installation I have no control over the code, also I tried to search for this error in the files but no luck, hence below URL also did not help me much -

Is 'encoding is an invalid keyword' error inevitable in python 2.x?

4.) I tried installing setuptools as well but it is also not helping

lit
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This is a bug in pygetwindow, already reported but not resolved: https://github.com/asweigart/PyGetWindow/issues/9

The problem is that in Python 3 open has parameter encoding, but not in Python 2. That is, the code now requires Python 3.

phd
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