[Python-modules-team] Bug#843898: Something to try

[Tobias Hansen]

On 11/20/2016 08:29 PM, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:17:49 +0000,
> Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> If you google this you see that tons of people have similar issues:
>> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/9656
>> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/9815
>> https://github.com/chrippa/backports.shutil_get_terminal_size/issues/9
> 
>> The most common "solution" there is reinstalling something with
>> pip. My suspicion is that the people who see this on Debian also used
>> pip and there is something interfering. Did you guys use pip (or
>> something else to install Python modules not from Debian) and have a
>> backports module or backports.shutil_get_terminal_size itself
>> installed there?
> 
> I do use pip within virtual environments, but these shouldn't interfere.
> 
> First, as per Julien's request, here's my output:
> 
> $ python
> Python 2.7.12+ (default, Sep  1 2016, 20:27:38) 
> [GCC 6.2.0 20160927] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> from  backports.shutil_get_terminal_size import get_terminal_size
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: No module named shutil_get_terminal_size
> 
> When using pip within virtual environments, packages/modules get
> installed in ~/.local/lib/python2.7 in my case.  There I see one
> potentially interfering backports module, which shows these contents:
> 
> $ ls -alh ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/backports/
> total 12K
> drwxr-xr-x  3 sluque sluque 4.0K Oct 30 16:16 .
> drwx------ 20 sluque sluque 4.0K Oct 30 16:18 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 sluque sluque 4.0K Oct 30 16:16 configparser
> 
> 

What happens if you rename that for a moment? Does it fix the problem?