Error in installation using pip --user

[ekohilas]

Hi, I get this error when I try to install your module through pip using --user

• Platform/operating system (i.e. Raspberry Pi with Raspbian operating system, Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Mac OSX 64-bit, etc.): Computer with Linux Mint

• Python version (run python -version or python3 -version): python3.6.2

• Error message you are receiving, including any Python exception traces:

  Collecting Adafruit-PN532
  Collecting Adafruit-GPIO>=0.9 (from Adafruit-PN532)
  Downloading Adafruit_GPIO-1.0.3.tar.gz
  Collecting adafruit-pureio (from Adafruit-GPIO>=0.9->Adafruit-PN532)
  Collecting spidev (from Adafruit-GPIO>=0.9->Adafruit-PN532)
  Using cached spidev-3.2.tar.gz
  Building wheels for collected packages: Adafruit-GPIO, spidev
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for Adafruit-GPIO ... done
  Stored in directory: /home/user/.cache/pip/wheels/b3/9c/46/979f3d85515bc2cc73b7ec36eba4310d7b5e1d915b6489995d
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for spidev ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3.6 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-8b_u4o1s/spidev/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/tmpfl_0z7kgpip-wheel- --python-tag cp36:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'spidev' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6
  x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.6m -c spidev_module.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/spidev_module.o
  spidev_module.c:20:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for spidev
  Running setup.py clean for spidev
  Successfully built Adafruit-GPIO
  Failed to build spidev
  Installing collected packages: adafruit-pureio, spidev, Adafruit-GPIO, Adafruit-PN532
  Running setup.py install for spidev ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3.6 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-8b_u4o1s/spidev/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-ep684f24-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=:
  running install
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'spidev' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6
  x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.6m -c spidev_module.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/spidev_module.o
  spidev_module.c:20:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Command "/usr/bin/python3.6 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-8b_u4o1s/spidev/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-ep684f24-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-8b_u4o1s/spidev/

• List the steps to reproduce the problem below (if possible attach code or commands to run): pip3.6 install Adafruit-PN532 --user

[ladyada]

hiya - we've re-written this library to support circuitpython/python, i2c and uart as well! we'll have the new library on pypi shortly which should solve a lot of this kind of problem thanks! https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_PN532