I am trying to Extracting Data from Companies House Electronic Records following the example provided in https://github.com/ONSBigData/parsing_company_accounts.
I run into issues with the installation of xbrl_parser on my server. When I run in terminal pip3 install xbrl_parser or pip install xbrl_parser I get an error.
Collecting xbrl_parser
Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9c/72/f8b6d58dfe085a8e9f2b6bf05795f9deb071372d476eb2100f6c0355d803/xbrl_parser-0.1.tar.gz
This works but straight after I get:
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-o3r0rklc/xbrl-parser/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-o3r0rklc/xbrl-parser/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-o3r0rklc/xbrl-parser/pip-egg-info
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-o3r0rklc/xbrl-parser/
Complete output (5 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-o3r0rklc/xbrl-parser/setup.py", line 8, in <module>
long_description=open('README.md').read(),
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'README.md'
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
This is the first time I am trying to install not a major python library, so I am not sure if I need to do something different when getting library from git.
Please advise how to install.
It's a bug in the distribution: the authors has forgotten to include file README.md into the distribution package.
Report the bug to their issue tracker.
Also you cannot install directly from Github: there is no setup.py in the repo.