Python 3: Pylint can't check package source code in unicode format about astroid HOT 6 CLOSED

#!sh

(wyatt)duncan@ubuntu:~$ cat test.py
from unidecode import unidecode
(wyatt)duncan@ubuntu:~$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pylint test.py
No config file found, using default configuration
************* Module test
C:  1, 0: Missing module docstring (missing-docstring)
W:  1, 0: Unused import unidecode (unused-import)


Report
======
2 statements analysed.

Messages by category
--------------------

+-----------+-------+---------+-----------+
|type       |number |previous |difference |
+===========+=======+=========+===========+
|convention |1      |1        |=          |
+-----------+-------+---------+-----------+
|refactor   |0      |0        |=          |
+-----------+-------+---------+-----------+
|warning    |1      |1        |=          |
+-----------+-------+---------+-----------+
|error      |0      |0        |=          |
+-----------+-------+---------+-----------+



Messages
--------

+------------------+------------+
|message id        |occurrences |
+==================+============+
|unused-import     |1           |
+------------------+------------+
|missing-docstring |1           |
+------------------+------------+



Global evaluation
-----------------
Your code has been rated at 0.00/10 (previous run: 0.00/10, +0.00)

Duplication
-----------

+-------------------------+------+---------+-----------+
|                         |now   |previous |difference |
+=========================+======+=========+===========+
|nb duplicated lines      |0     |0        |=          |
+-------------------------+------+---------+-----------+
|percent duplicated lines |0.000 |0.000    |=          |
+-------------------------+------+---------+-----------+



External dependencies
---------------------
::

    unidecode (test)



Raw metrics
-----------

+----------+-------+-------+---------+-----------+
|type      |number |%      |previous |difference |
+==========+=======+=======+=========+===========+
|code      |2      |100.00 |2        |=          |
+----------+-------+-------+---------+-----------+
|docstring |0      |0.00   |0        |=          |
+----------+-------+-------+---------+-----------+
|comment   |0      |0.00   |0        |=          |
+----------+-------+-------+---------+-----------+
|empty     |0      |0.00   |0        |=          |
+----------+-------+-------+---------+-----------+



Statistics by type
------------------

+---------+-------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+
|type     |number |old number |difference |%documented |%badname |
+=========+=======+===========+===========+============+=========+
|module   |1      |1          |=          |0.00        |0.00     |
+---------+-------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+
|class    |0      |0          |=          |0           |0        |
+---------+-------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+
|method   |0      |0          |=          |0           |0        |
+---------+-------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+
|function |0      |0          |=          |0           |0        |
+---------+-------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+



(wyatt)duncan@ubuntu:~$ LANG= pylint test.py
No config file found, using default configuration
************* Module test
C:  1, 0: Missing module docstring (missing-docstring)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/bin/pylint", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('pylint==1.3.1', 'console_scripts', 'pylint')()
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pylint/__init__.py", line 21, in run_pylint
    Run(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 991, in __init__
    linter.check(args)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 585, in check
    self.check_astroid_module(astroid, walker, rawcheckers, tokencheckers)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pylint/lint.py", line 662, in check_astroid_module
    walker.walk(astroid)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pylint/utils.py", line 804, in walk
    self.walk(child)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pylint/utils.py", line 801, in walk
    cb(astroid)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pylint/checkers/imports.py", line 270, in visit_from
    self._add_imported_module(node, '%s.%s' % (importedmodnode.name, name))
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pylint/checkers/imports.py", line 304, in _add_imported_module
    importedmodname = get_module_part(importedmodname)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/astroid/modutils.py", line 330, in get_module_part
    context_file=context_file)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/astroid/modutils.py", line 275, in file_from_modpath
    return _file_from_modpath(modpath, path, context)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/astroid/modutils.py", line 482, in _file_from_modpath
    mtype, mp_filename = _module_file(modpath, path)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/site-packages/astroid/modutils.py", line 603, in _module_file
    data = stream.read(4096)
  File "/home/duncan/.virtualenvs/wyatt/lib/python3.4/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 449: ordinal not in range(128)
(wyatt)duncan@ubuntu:~$ 

#!python
with open("file_with_utf8_chars.txt", "r") as f:
    mystr = f.read()