Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-t_utKw/pyodbc/

[xanterx]

Getting this error for setuptools 40.7.0 only if I downgrade to 40.6.3 it works

Collecting pyodbc==4.0.1 Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/09/2c/74d615f544292b160e4547a5f16609da7907fd802a1e8 873b45c07db6837/pyodbc-4.0.1.tar.gz (190kB) 100% |████████████████████████████████| 194kB 332kB/s Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info: running egg_info creating pip-egg-info/pyodbc.egg-info writing pip-egg-info/pyodbc.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/pyodbc.egg-info/top_level.txt writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/pyodbc.egg-info/dependency_links.txt writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/pyodbc.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/tmp/pip-install-t_utKw/pyodbc/setup.py", line 293, in <module> main() File "/tmp/pip-install-t_utKw/pyodbc/setup.py", line 112, in main setup(**kwargs) File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/project-_pLCgLR7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 145, in setup return distutils.core.setup(**attrs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup dist.run_commands() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/project-_pLCgLR7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 296, in run self.find_sources() File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/project-_pLCgLR7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 303, in find_sources mm.run() File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/project-_pLCgLR7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 534, in run self.add_defaults() File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/project-_pLCgLR7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py", line 570, in add_defaults sdist.add_defaults(self) File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/project-_pLCgLR7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/setuptools/command/py36compat.py", line 36, in add_defaults self._add_defaults_ext() File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/project-_pLCgLR7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/setuptools/command/py36compat.py", line 119, in _add_defaults_ext build_ext = self.get_finalized_command('build_ext') File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 312, in get_finalized_command cmd_obj.ensure_finalized() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 109, in ensure_finalized self.finalize_options() File "/home/user/.local/share/virtualenvs/project-_pLCgLR7/lib/python2.7/site- packages/setuptools/command/build_ext.py", line 133, in finalize_options _build_ext.finalize_options(self) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 159, in finalize_options self.include_dirs.append(py_include) AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'append'

[xanterx]

Downgrade to 40.6.3
pip install setuptools==40.6.3

[benoit-pierre]

Another likely issue due to #1180.

[benoit-pierre]

Closing as duplicate of #1653.