I am having difficulty installing Python Packages on Windows. Following all of the responses to questions on this website and others I found through Google didn't solve the problem.
I originally followed this guide: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/win/
I've tried re-installing Python, updating pip and the rest of the install packages, installing manually with python install tabular, updating the registry, and installing a fresh copy of Python in a clean VM.
Thanks for your help in advance!
This is the output from pip:
> Running setup.py egg_info for package tabular
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
>
> File "c:\users\jgerber\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_jgerber\tabular\setup.py",
> line 50, in <module>
>
> raise ImportError("distribute was not found and fallback to setuptools was not allowed")
>
> ImportError: distribute was not found and fallback to setuptools was not allowed
>
> Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
>
> File
> "c:\users\jgerber\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_jgerber\tabular\setup.py",
> line 50, in <module>
>
> raise ImportError("distribute was not found and fallback to setuptools was not allowed")
>
> ImportError: distribute was not found and fallback to setuptools was
> not allowed
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Cleaning up...
>
> Removing temporary dir
> c:\users\jgerber\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_jgerber... Command
> python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in
> c:\users\jgerber\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_jgerber\tabular
>
> Exception information: Traceback (most recent call last): File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\basecommand.py", line 134, in main
> status = self.run(options, args) File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\commands\install.py", line 236, in
> run
> requirement_set.prepare_files(finder, force_root_egg_info=self.bundle, bundle=self.bundle) File
> "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 1134, in
> prepare_files
> req_to_install.run_egg_info() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\req.py", line 259, in run_egg_info
> command_desc='python setup.py egg_info') File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pip\util.py", line 670, in
> call_subprocess
> % (command_desc, proc.returncode, cwd)) InstallationError: Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in
> c:\users\jgerber\appdata\local\temp\pip_build_jgerber\tabular
I had the same issue with tabular on windows. By including http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py in the same folder as the setup.py file, it installed without issues.