When pip installing library in an virtualenv an error message is shown

[keigezellig]

I am using a virtual environment with python 3 as base and i got the following error message:

(.venv) (test)[vagrant@fedora25-vbox charting_stuff]$ pip install staticmap
Collecting staticmap
  Downloading staticmap-0.5.3.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    error in staticmap setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers; Expected version spec in futures;python_version<"3.2" at ;python_version<"3.2"

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ydv6vuoj/staticmap/ 

It has probably something to do with an syntax error in your requirements.txt and/or setup.py?

[j0nes2k]

+1 for this issue, we are seeing this for python 2.7 too. @keigezellig, did you find a workaround for this?

[laufhannes]

Have a look at https://github.com/komoot/staticmap/issues/13#issuecomment-309861553, that did the trick for me:

pip install -U setuptools

[beyoung]

@laufhannes It helps.