Error while creating a new project

[amadeu01]

Error output

🚀  Starting to generate project SmartAPI...
👉  Removing any previous temporary folder...
✅  Done
👉  Making temporary folder (/Users/Amadeu/Developer/swiftplate_temp)...
✅  Done
👉  Making a local clone of the SwiftPlate repo...
✅  Done
👉  Copying template folder...
✅  Done
👉  Removing temporary folder...
✅  Done
👉  Filling in template...
An error was encountered 🙁
Error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=264 "The file “A.cpython-36.pyc” couldn’t be opened because the text encoding of its contents can’t be determined." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Users/Amadeu/Developer/AREPL-vscode/test/manualAreplTests/__pycache__/A.cpython-36.pyc}

[Peter-Schorn]

I got the exact same error. Any idea why this is occuring or what to do to fix it?

[Peter-Schorn]

@amadeuo01 Ok I think the error was because I tried to generate the project in a folder that contained other files. Make sure you create the project in an empty directory.