[Python-modules-team] Bug#685302: python3-pip: Fails to be able to install packages from PyPI

[Russel Winder]

Jakub,

On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 17:37 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
[…]
> It looks more like a bug in the package you're trying to install.

Yes in hindsight it does.  I downloaded the package and manually
followed the instructions:

	python2 setup.py install

for Python 2 and:

	python3 setup.py build install

for Python 3. I didn't try the former but the latter doesn't work for me
run manually, it gives the same error message. I can't believe that a
package would have got into PyPI without being able to be installed for
Python 3 at least on Windows and Mac OS X, perhaps this is not the case.

> >My guess is that when running setup.py it does so with /usr/bin/python 
> >instead of /usr/bin/python3
> 
> Well, no, in Python 2.X str does have attribute 'decode'. In Python 3.X, 
> it doesn't.

decode is a method of bytearray in Python3, __doc__ is a string.  I
tried editing the setup.py to remove the decode() as not being necessary
in Python 3 and it seems to work.
So I don't see how this has ever worked for anyone :-(

I will push this problem upstream.

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