pip3.6 install google-gax can fail due to old setuptools.

[gwk]

Just tried to install google-gax via python3.6 pip and it failed as follows. Googling turned this up: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4216. I ran pip3.6 install --upgrade setuptools and it fixed the problem. I wonder if this confusion could be avoided by adding a requirements.txt with sufficiently modern setuptools?

  Running setup.py install for google-gax ... error
    Complete output from command /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/python3.6 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/tn/jcyz2sqj0s93bmtyjrmvtlr80000gn/T/pip-build-46h_1gx5/google-gax/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/tn/jcyz2sqj0s93bmtyjrmvtlr80000gn/T/pip-ablzchrt-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
        from setuptools.extern.six.moves import filter, filterfalse, map
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/extern/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
        from pkg_resources.extern import VendorImporter
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3017, in <module>
        @_call_aside
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3003, in _call_aside
        f(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3045, in _initialize_master_working_set
        dist.activate(replace=False)
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2577, in activate
        declare_namespace(pkg)
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2151, in declare_namespace
        _handle_ns(packageName, path_item)
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2091, in _handle_ns
        _rebuild_mod_path(path, packageName, module)
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2120, in _rebuild_mod_path
        orig_path.sort(key=position_in_sys_path)
    AttributeError: '_NamespacePath' object has no attribute 'sort'

[Mistobaan]

I just got this error too https://github.com/studioml/studio/issues/220 updating setuptools fixed the problem