[Distutils] AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'split'

[Dominique Orban]

On 25 October, 2013 at 2:06:34 PM, Dominique Orban (dominique.orban at gmail.com) wrote:
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>On 25 October, 2013 at 1:56:26 PM, Oscar Benjamin (oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com) wrote:
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>>On Oct 25, 2013 3:52 PM, "Dominique Orban"
>>wrote:
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>>> On 25 October, 2013 at 9:31:16 AM, Oscar Benjamin (
>>oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com) wrote:
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>>> >On 24 October 2013 21:04, Dominique Orban wrote:
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>>> >> I hope this is the right place to ask for help. I'm not finding much
>>comfort in the PyPi documentation or in Google searches. I uploaded my
>>package `pykrylov` with `python setup.py sdist upload`. Installing it
>>locally with `python setup.py` install works fine but `pip install
>>pykrylov` breaks with the messages below. I since removed it from PyPI but
>>I get the same error message if I try installing from the git repository.
>>I'm hoping someone can put me on track as I've no idea what's wrong. You
>>can see my setup.py here:
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>>https://github.com/dpo/pykrylov/blob/ea553cdb287f6e685406ceadcb297fd6704af52d/setup.py
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>>> >> I'm using Python 2.7.5 on OSX installed with Homebrew and pip 1.4.1.
>>Attempts to upgrade setuptools or pip result in another error message
>>(AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'rollback')...
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>>> >Can you install a more recent setuptools by downloading it and running
>>> >the setup.py yourself?
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>>https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.1.6.tar.gz
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>>> Thanks for the suggestion. I'm still getting the same error with
>>setuptools 1.1.6. I also tried "upgrading" Numpy (since I'm using Numpy
>>distutils) by installing from their git repository, and I'm still getting
>>the same error.
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>>> Is anything obviously wrong with the setup.py?
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>>I don't know but I'm not totally clear what you mean. Previously you
>>described multiple problems: with pip, setuptools and pykrylov. Have you
>>successfully installed setuptools now?
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>>If the "same error" is with pykrylov's setup.py have you tried debugging
>>it? E.g. 'python -m pdb setup.py install'
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>"python setup.py install" works fine. It's the installation with pip that returns the error message I mentioned. I was wondering if something in setup.py didn't agree with pip/setuptools.
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>Yes I installed setuptools 1.1.6. But "pip install -e git://github.com/dpo/pykrylov.git@ea553cd#egg=pykrylov" still returns "AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'split'".
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>I hope I'm making sense.

Anybody can provide any help with this?

Many thanks!


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Dominique