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

[Oscar Benjamin]

On Oct 31, 2013 4:09 PM, "Dominique Orban" <dominique.orban at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 25 October, 2013 at 2:06:34 PM, Dominique Orban (
dominique.orban at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >On 25 October, 2013 at 1:56:26 PM, Oscar Benjamin (
oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com) wrote:
> >>
> >>On Oct 25, 2013 3:52 PM, "Dominique Orban"
> >>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 25 October, 2013 at 9:31:16 AM, Oscar Benjamin (
> >>oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com) wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >On 24 October 2013 21:04, Dominique Orban wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 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:
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>
https://github.com/dpo/pykrylov/blob/ea553cdb287f6e685406ceadcb297fd6704af52d/setup.py
> >>> >>
> >>> >> 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')...
> >>> >
> >>> >Can you install a more recent setuptools by downloading it and
running
> >>> >the setup.py yourself?
> >>> >
> >>
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/setuptools/setuptools-1.1.6.tar.gz
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> Is anything obviously wrong with the setup.py?
> >>
> >>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?
> >>
> >>If the "same error" is with pykrylov's setup.py have you tried debugging
> >>it? E.g. 'python -m pdb setup.py install'
> >
> >"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.
> >
> >Yes I installed setuptools 1.1.6. But "pip install -e git://
github.com/dpo/pykrylov.git at ea553cd#egg=pykrylov" still returns
"AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'split'".
> >
> >I hope I'm making sense.
>
> Anybody can provide any help with this?

Run pip under pdb. Find the location of the pip script and run:
python -m pdb /path/to/pip install ...

Then find out which object has the wrong type and see if you can trace it
back to something in the setup.py.

Oscar
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