Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-RCumlk/hexbytes/

[avatar-lavventura]

• OS: Ubuntu

$ pip -V
pip 9.0.3 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

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pip install hexbytes gives following error:

Collecting hexbytes
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:339: SNIMissingWarning: An HTTPS request has been made, but the SNI (Subject Name Indication) extension to TLS is not available on this platform. This may cause the server to present an incorrect TLS certificate, which can cause validation failures. You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings
  SNIMissingWarning
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:137: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. You can upgrade to a newer version of Python to solve this. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings
  InsecurePlatformWarning
  Using cached hexbytes-0.1.0.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-RCumlk/hexbytes/setup.py", line 67, in <module>
        'Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy',
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 129, in setup
        return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 111, in setup
        _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 372, in __init__
        _Distribution.__init__(self, attrs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 287, in __init__
        self.finalize_options()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 528, in finalize_options
        ep.load()(self, ep.name, value)
      File "/tmp/pip-build-RCumlk/hexbytes/.eggs/setuptools_markdown-0.2-py2.7.egg/setuptools_markdown.py", line 22, in long_description_markdown_filename
        output = pypandoc.convert(markdown_filename, 'rst')
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pypandoc/__init__.py", line 66, in convert
        raise RuntimeError("Format missing, but need one (identified source as text as no "
    RuntimeError: Format missing, but need one (identified source as text as no file with that name was found).

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-RCumlk/hexbytes/

[trtg]

@avatar-lavventura the issue appears to be due to a python3 requirement on hexbytes part, if you use python2 style pip, the installation will fail. At least for me, pip3 succeeds.

[carver]

Correct, hexbytes is a py3-only library.