Python2 (Centos 7) setup: 'tests_require' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers

[gamename]

Hi,

I'm getting this error when installing on CentOS7:

[tennis@apigee-node-1 ~]$ /bin/pip2 install httplib2
Collecting httplib2
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ed/cd/533a1e9e04671bcee5d2854b4f651a3fab9586d698de769d93b05ee2bff1/httplib2-0.19.1.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    error in httplib2 setup command: 'tests_require' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-yR92Sb/httplib2/
You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 21.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Could you investigate, please?

Thanks,
-T

[temoto]

Is upgrading pip an option for you?

[gamename]

@temoto Unfortunately, no. This installation is part of a 3rd party ansible role.

[temoto]

@gamename please show /bin/pip2 freeze |fgrep setupt

[gamename]

@temoto Here ya go

[tennis@apigee-node-1 ~]$ /bin/pip2 freeze |fgrep setupt
You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 21.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

[temoto]

@gamename does it work after /bin/pip2 install setuptools ?

[gamename]

@temoto Here's what I get for that:

[tennis@apigee-node-1 ~]$ /bin/pip2 install setuptools 
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): setuptools in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 21.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
[tennis@apigee-node-1 ~]$ 

[temoto]

/bin/pip2 install -U setuptools
/bin/pip2 install httplib2

[gamename]

@temoto Here's what happened

[tennis@apigee-node-1 ~]$ /bin/pip2 install -U setuptools
Collecting setuptools
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/94/75/05e1d69c61c4dfaf65ad12785cd18bedc1e0129976c55914d6aea59c7da8/setuptools-54.2.0.tar.gz (2.1MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 2.1MB 420kB/s 
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "setuptools/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
        import setuptools.version
      File "setuptools/version.py", line 1, in <module>
        import pkg_resources
      File "pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1367
        raise SyntaxError(e) from e
                                ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-funexW/setuptools/
You are using pip version 8.1.2, however version 21.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.

[temoto]

@gamename sorry, it'll have to wait best case for tomorrow. I'll get CentOS 7 in virtual machine and find a solution.

[gamename]

Ok

[gamename]

@temoto I can get you the GCP terraform setup I'm using if you want. That is, I can give you the terraform scripts to fire up a CentOS 7 box on GCP.

[gamename]

@temoto Any update?

[gamename]

Good morning! Any updates?

[dturet-godaddy]

I'm experiencing the same issue related to Ansible and CentOS, so I'm wondering if a fix for this in progress or planned? Thanks in advance

[temoto]

Sorry, no updates yet.

[temoto]

@gamename or @dturet how did you go from clean centos:7 image to /bin/pip2 ?

[temoto]

@temoto I can get you the GCP terraform setup I'm using if you want. That is, I can give you the terraform scripts to fire up a CentOS 7 box on GCP.

That may help now.

[gamename]

@gamename or @dturet how did you go from clean centos:7 image to /bin/pip2 ?

Yes. It was a clean image.

[gamename]

@temoto I can get you the GCP terraform setup I'm using if you want. That is, I can give you the terraform scripts to fire up a CentOS 7 box on GCP.

That may help now.

OK. let me put something together for you.

[temoto]

Quick workaround pip2 install -U 'setuptools<45'

Setuptools as a project continues to support Python 2 with bugfixes and important features on Setuptools 44.x.

https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/python%202%20sunset.html

[temoto]

@temoto I can get you the GCP terraform setup I'm using if you want. That is, I can give you the terraform scripts to fire up a CentOS 7 box on GCP.

That may help now.

OK. let me put something together for you.

I was able to reproduce the problem. This is no longer needed. Sorry for disturbing.

[gamename]

@temoto I can get you the GCP terraform setup I'm using if you want. That is, I can give you the terraform scripts to fire up a CentOS 7 box on GCP.

That may help now.

OK. let me put something together for you.

I was able to reproduce the problem. This is no longer needed. Sorry for disturbing.

Np. Glad to hear you can reproduce it.