[Distutils] can someone explain why I have started to get these pip failures

[Ian Cordasco]

Try:

pip install --force-reinstall setuptools -U

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
>> (myenv) rptlab at app0:~/myenv
>> $ python
>> Python 2.7.11+ (default, Apr 17 2016, 14:00:29)
>> [GCC 5.3.1 20160413] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>> (myenv) rptlab at app0:~/myenv
>>
>> $ pip --version
>> pip 8.1.2 from /home/rptlab/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
>> (python 2.7)
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>> (myenv) rptlab at app0:~/myenv
>>
>>  pip install -r requirements.txt
>> Collecting MySQL-python<1.3,>=1.2.5 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
>>   Downloading MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB)
>>     100% |################################| 112kB 2.1MB/s
>> Could not import setuptools which is required to install from a source
>> distribution.
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/home/rptlab/> (myenv)
>> rptlab at app0:~/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip/req/req_install.py",
>> line 372, in setup_py
>>     import setuptools  # noqa
>>   File "/home/rptlab/> (myenv)
>> rptlab at app0:~/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py",
>> line 11, in <module>
>>     from setuptools.extern.six.moves import filterfalse, map
>>   File "/home/rptlab/> (myenv)
>> rptlab at app0:~/myenv/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/extern/__init__.py",
>> line 1, in <module>
>>     from pkg_resources.extern import VendorImporter
>> ImportError: No module named pkg_resources.extern
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>> (myenv) rptlab at app0:~/myenv
>>
>> $ pip install setuptools -U
>> Requirement already up-to-date: setuptools in
>> ./lib/python2.7/site-packages
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> This is on a unbuntu 16.04lts system
>
>> $ uname -a
>> Linux app0 4.4.0-28-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 24 10:09:13 UTC 2016
>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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>
> --
> Robin Becker
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