higlass-manage installed via pip module not found error

[bskubi]

I ran pip install higlass-manage, which installed version 0.8.0 successfully. However higlass-manage view *.cool failed with a "module not found" error for higlass.client in the view.py file. Examining the source code in view.py shows that the error occurs on the top line here:

from higlass.client import Track, View, ViewConf

if datatype is None:
    datatype = inferred_datatype

if tracktype is None and position is None:
    (tracktype, position) = datatype_to_tracktype(datatype)

    if tracktype is None:
        print("ERROR: Unknown track type for the given datatype:", datatype)
        return

view = View(
    [
        Track(
            track_type=tracktype,
            position=position,
            tileset_uuid=uuid,
            server="http://localhost:{}/api/v1/".format(port),
            height=200,
        ),
    ]
)

viewconf = ViewConf([view])

conf = viewconf.to_dict()

conf["trackSourceServers"] = []
conf["trackSourceServers"] += ["http://localhost:{}/api/v1/".format(port)]

if public_data:
    conf["trackSourceServers"] += ["http://higlass.io/api/v1/"]

# uplaod the viewconf
res = requests.post(
    "http://localhost:{}/api/v1/viewconfs/".format(port), json={"viewconf": conf}
)

if res.status_code != 200:
    print("Error posting viewconf:", res.status, res.content)
    return

uid = json.loads(res.content)["uid"]

# make sure this test passes on Travis CI and doesn't try to open
# a terminal-based browser which doesn't return
if not os.environ.get("HAS_JOSH_K_SEAL_OF_APPROVAL"):
    webbrowser.open(
        "http://localhost:{port}/app/?config={uid}".format(port=port, uid=uid)
    )

I see the code on github differs from this and is a newer version.

Installing directly from the github source appears to solve the problem:

pip install git+https://github.com/higlass/higlass-manage.git