Error when installing with pip

[mladeny]

Python version 3.6.3
pip version 10.0.1

I'm also in a python virtual env

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Collecting distribute (from django-cloud-browser)
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    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/3v/vg8ymhbd44q5h_wl1z6t_0m00000gn/T/pip-install-tp8o8d5y/distribute/setuptools/__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
        from setuptools.extension import Extension, Library
      File "/private/var/folders/3v/vg8ymhbd44q5h_wl1z6t_0m00000gn/T/pip-install-tp8o8d5y/distribute/setuptools/extension.py", line 5, in <module>
        from setuptools.dist import _get_unpatched
      File "/private/var/folders/3v/vg8ymhbd44q5h_wl1z6t_0m00000gn/T/pip-install-tp8o8d5y/distribute/setuptools/dist.py", line 7, in <module>
        from setuptools.command.install import install
      File "/private/var/folders/3v/vg8ymhbd44q5h_wl1z6t_0m00000gn/T/pip-install-tp8o8d5y/distribute/setuptools/command/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
        from setuptools.command import install_scripts
      File "/private/var/folders/3v/vg8ymhbd44q5h_wl1z6t_0m00000gn/T/pip-install-tp8o8d5y/distribute/setuptools/command/install_scripts.py", line 3, in <module>
        from pkg_resources import Distribution, PathMetadata, ensure_directory
      File "/private/var/folders/3v/vg8ymhbd44q5h_wl1z6t_0m00000gn/T/pip-install-tp8o8d5y/distribute/pkg_resources.py", line 1518, in <module>
        register_loader_type(importlib_bootstrap.SourceFileLoader, DefaultProvider)
    AttributeError: module 'importlib._bootstrap' has no attribute 'SourceFileLoader'```

[tweeks024]

Can reproduce as well

Python 3.6.4
pip 9.0.1 (tried upgrade to 10.0.1)

[ryan-roemer]

If it's something actually wrong with this lib, I'll take a PR that fixes it.

Did google this which may imply something with environment itself and not a given lib: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42558133/upgrading-python3-4-to-python3-6-on-ubuntu-breaks-pip

[tweeks024]

I found it installs fine normally with both python 2.7 and 3.5 and was eventually able to get it to install on 3.6 by using --no-deps since its failing when trying to install distribute. Pip actually says distribute is already installed if I run pip install --upgrade distribute but fails if I try pip install --force-reinstall distribute with the same error as above.

It looks like at least some other people have seen similar behavior with different packages. I'd guess removing the requirement would remove this behavior in 3.6 but not sure if that would cause issues for older version of python.

aspineux/pyzmail#16

[leewesleyv]

Same problem on python 3.7.2.

I think the problem is that the dependency (Distribute) only supports up to python 3.3. https://pypi.org/project/distribute/

[c-w]

I've implemented a fix for this in #18 which fixes the package install for me (Python 3.6.5, pip 9.0.3).