[Distutils] latest setuptools appears to require six in a breaking way

[Robin Becker]

On 25/01/2017 10:41, Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Anyone else seen this?
>
> |File
> "/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.6.9/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py",
> line 10, in <module> from six.moves import filter, map ImportError: No module
> named six.moves|
>
My colleague just came across this when creating a new venv.

We then installed six, but our setup then went on to complain about packaging 
and then finally appdirs before it went through.

Each time the fix was to manually install the thing that pip complained about.


>
> Started happening in my nightly builds on travis after the 34.0.2 release of
> setuptools. I've filed an issue here since I suspect it isn't just me:
>
> https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/945
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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Robin Becker