> Hi Liam,**** > > Sorry for the trouble. The cause is rooted in the latest > updates to Setuptools and Distribute on PyPI which were launched today.*** > * > > ** ** > > I believe what’s happening here is pip is installing > Distribute 0.7, which triggers the uninstallation of Distribute, but > Distribute 0.7 (a compatibility wrapper) depends on a setuptools module to > be in place to install.**** > > ** ** > > I’m unsure about the failed rollback. That looks like a > separate issue in pip. >
the simplest answer IMO is to not use pip to upgrade distribute/setuptools right now. It was only working in python2 before now anyway. ( https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/650) pip is fundamentally dependent on setuptools to perform upgrades. the best fix I think is to move faster on making pip "PEP439 compliant" - i.e. have pip be able to at least install from wheels w/o needing setuptools, which would remove the bootstrap headache - see https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/863 - this could likely involve pip replacing it's use of pkg_resources with distlib (https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/909) Marcus
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