3.4rc2 and pip on windows

[Mark Lawrence]

On 04/03/2014 05:32, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 3/3/2014 2:47 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 03/03/2014 00:07, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>> On 3/2/2014 6:55 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>> Trying to install pyttsx, it doesn't strike me as very clever that, as
>>>> seen below, you get "Successfully installed pyttsx" despite the syntax
>>>> errors and you can't actually do an import.
>>>>
>>>> c:\Users\Mark\CrossCode>c:\Python34\Scripts\pip3.4.exe install pyttsx
>>>> Downloading/unpacking pyttsx
>>>>    Downloading pyttsx-1.1.tar.gz
>>>>    Running setup.py
>>>> (path:C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Temp\pip_build_Mark\pyttsx\setup.py)
>>>> egg_info for package pyttsx
>>>>
>>>> Installing collected packages: pyttsx
>>>>    Running setup.py install for pyttsx
>>>>        File "C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages\pyttsx\driver.py", line 105
>>>>          except Exception, e
>>>>                          ^
>>>>      SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> This is from setup.py
>
>
>>>> [other syntax errors snipped]
>>>>
>>>> Successfully installed pyttsx
>
> This is from pip, saying that it successfully downloaded and installed
> the files on your disk, which it did.
>
>>> A bug it seems to me.
>
> After reading the responses on the tracker and here, the bug is in the
> total systen of interaction of multiple parts. It is not a bug for the
> part covered by the tracker.
>
>>>> Cleaning up...
>>>>
>>>> c:\Users\Mark\CrossCode>py -3.4
>>>> Python 3.4.0rc2 (v3.4.0rc2:a300712ed38c, Feb 23 2014, 10:49:04) [MSC
>>>> v.1600 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>  >>> import pyttsx
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>>    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\pyttsx\__init__.py", line 18, in
>>>> <module>
>>>>      from engine import Engine
>>>>
>>>> I've looked at pyttsx in my 3.3 site-packages and it appears that I've
>>>> manually run 2to3.  Is this something that could be done automatically
>>>> by pip?  Your thoughts please, ladies and gentlemen.
>>>
>>> I should hope so.
>
>> FTR I raised this as http://bugs.python.org/issue20846 and it was closed
>> 11 minutes after I raised it.  I won't say anything else as I'm
>> extremely tired and irritable and might well regret it later.
>
> The issue brought to attention that the parts do not work together
> perfectly yet and stimulated some thought and some clarification on what
> needs to be done. I understand the irritation, but sleeping on it and
> letting it go is a good idea.
>

Attempted overnight sleep failed :(  Sleeping late afternoon and early 
evening GMT yesterday 04/03/2014 succeeded :)

Having raised the issue I certainly understand things much better, 
especially because of the words from Ned Deilly.

So a question springs to my mind.

How do we educate the people putting their code on pypi to correctly set 
up the relevant fields so that it can be correctly handled by any tools 
that want to download from pypi?

How does the lack of correct data and/or code on pypi add more credence 
to the impression that libraries are not ready for Python 3 when in 
actual fact they are?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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