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DistributionNotFound running the flake8 on Mac OS X

I have trouble running flake8 after installing it with pip install flake8. Reinstalling of pep8 didn't help. I am running the default python on Mac OS X 10.9.2. My pep8 version is 1.5.6.

 File "/usr/local/bin/flake8", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 2603, in <module>
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 666, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 565, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)  # XXX put more info here
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: pep8>=1.4.6
Solution

  • I got the same problem on Linux today. Solved this running:

    pip install --upgrade setuptools

    Hope to help you too.