docutils dependency problem in version.py

[Chet Burgess]

Like the report from Ki-wook Ahn (sorry wasn’t on the list when it was sent so I can’t reply to it), I too am seeing an dependency problem with docutils. version.py requires docutils be installed but docutils is not listed in setup.py. 

Further there is a catch-22 in that you can’t process and install the dependencies from setup.py because it depends on loading version.py, which then requires docutils. 

I’m not entirely sure what the pythonic way of fixing this is.

stack trace

> pip install dist/python-daemon-2.0.1.tar.gz
Unpacking ./dist/python-daemon-2.0.1.tar.gz
  Running setup.py (path:/var/folders/w8/zm80gr654rq4cgxd9ls624jc0000gn/T/pip-M8TV6Y-build/setup.py) egg_info for package from file:///Users/cfb/Downloads/foo/python-daemon-2.0.1/dist/python-daemon-2.0.1.tar.gz
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 17, in <module>
      File "/var/folders/w8/zm80gr654rq4cgxd9ls624jc0000gn/T/pip-M8TV6Y-build/setup.py", line 27, in <module>
        import version
      File "version.py", line 51, in <module>
        import docutils.core
    ImportError: No module named docutils.core
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 17, in <module>

  File "/var/folders/w8/zm80gr654rq4cgxd9ls624jc0000gn/T/pip-M8TV6Y-build/setup.py", line 27, in <module>

    import version

  File "version.py", line 51, in <module>

    import docutils.core

ImportError: No module named docutils.core

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Chet Burgess