Flask: how to remove error when installing MarkupSafe on Win10 via cmd/pip?

Question

Flask

What to do, how to decide?
Deploying flask on my home machine...
pip install flask

Everything is going well.
But when it comes to installing the MarkupSafe package , this is what happens:

Installing collected packages: markupsafe
  Running setup.py install for markupsafe ... error
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\compat\__init__.py", line 73, in console_to_str
    return s.decode(sys.__stdout__.encoding)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd1 in position 3: invalid continuation byte
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: ...

Next on the command line is a list of recent calls, and this is what it ends up with:

line = console_to_str(proc.stdout.readline())
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python36-32\lib\site-packages\pip\compat\__init__.py", line 75, in console_to_str
    return s.decode('utf_8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd1 in position 3: invalid continuation byte

... and so on (I can attach the rest of the listing).

As a result, when I try to run a web application with Flask imports, I get this:

from markupsafe import Markup, escape, soft_unicode
  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\markupsafe\__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
    from markupsafe._compat import text_type, string_types, int_types, \
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'markupsafe._compat'

All other add-on packages within Flask install fine.
Tried uninstalling MarkupSafe and installing it separately - same problem.

Please help me to understand and solve the problem.
PS With flask worked before, but such an error during installation is the first time.

Answer 1

First, try updating pip:
If that doesn't work, download the appropriate wheel for your system from here and try installing it.