PIP install to virtual environment fails

[michaeljohnbarr]

TLDR is "error: can't copy 'social\apps\django_app\default\tests.py': doesn't exist or not a regular file"

It seems that the symbolic link that is committed does not play well with virtual environments. When I download the tar.gz file and extract it, the symbolic link works as expected (this is on Windows). However, trying to install to the virtual environment yields the below error.

Install packages failed: Error occurred when installing package python-social-auth.

The following command was executed:

packaging_tool.py install --build-dir C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\pycharm-packaging7430035467726148887.tmp python-social-auth

The error output of the command:

Downloading/unpacking python-social-auth
Running setup.py (path:C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\pycharm-packaging7430035467726148887.tmp\python-social-auth\setup.py) egg_info for package python-social-auth

Downloading/unpacking requests>=1.1.0 (from python-social-auth)
Downloading/unpacking oauthlib>=0.3.8 (from python-social-auth)
Running setup.py (path:C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\pycharm-packaging7430035467726148887.tmp\oauthlib\setup.py) egg_info for package oauthlib

Downloading/unpacking six>=1.2.0 (from python-social-auth)
Downloading six-1.5.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Downloading/unpacking python3-openid>=3.0.1 (from python-social-auth)
Running setup.py (path:C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\pycharm-packaging7430035467726148887.tmp\python3-openid\setup.py) egg_info for package python3-openid

warning: no files found matching 'NOTICE'
warning: no files found matching 'CHANGELOG'
warning: no files found matching 'README.md' under directory 'examples'
warning: no files found matching '*.css' under directory 'doc'
warning: no files found matching '*.html' under directory 'doc'

Downloading/unpacking requests-oauthlib>=0.3.0,<0.3.2 (from python-social-auth)
Downloading requests-oauthlib-0.3.1.tar.gz
Running setup.py (path:C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\pycharm-packaging7430035467726148887.tmp\requests-oauthlib\setup.py) egg_info for package requests-oauthlib

Installing collected packages: python-social-auth, requests, oauthlib, six, python3-openid, requests-oauthlib
Running setup.py install for python-social-auth
error: can't copy 'social\apps\django_app\default\tests.py': doesn't exist or not a regular file
Complete output from command C:\Users\Michael\mvmstats\Scripts\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\pycharm-packaging7430035467726148887.tmp\python-social-auth\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\michael\appdata\local\temp\pip-53tlxu-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\Michael\mvmstats\include\site\python3.3:
running install

running build

running build_py

creating build

creating build\lib

creating build\lib\social

copying social\actions.py -> build\lib\social

copying social\exceptions.py -> build\lib\social

copying social\p3.py -> build\lib\social

copying social\store.py -> build\lib\social

copying social\utils.py -> build\lib\social

copying social__init__.py -> build\lib\social

creating build\lib\social\apps

copying social\apps__init__.py -> build\lib\social\apps

creating build\lib\social\apps\django_app

copying social\apps\django_app\context_processors.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app

copying social\apps\django_app\middleware.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app

copying social\apps\django_app\tests.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app

copying social\apps\django_app\urls.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app

copying social\apps\django_app\utils.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app

copying social\apps\django_app\views.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app

copying social\apps\django_app__init__.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app

creating build\lib\social\apps\django_app\default

copying social\apps\django_app\default\admin.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app\default

copying social\apps\django_app\default\fields.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app\default

copying social\apps\django_app\default\models.py -> build\lib\social\apps\django_app\default

error: can't copy 'social\apps\django_app\default\tests.py': doesn't exist or not a regular file

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Cleaning up...
Command C:\Users\Michael\mvmstats\Scripts\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\pycharm-packaging7430035467726148887.tmp\python-social-auth\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\michael\appdata\local\temp\pip-53tlxu-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\Michael\mvmstats\include\site\python3.3 failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Michael\AppData\Local\Temp\pycharm-packaging7430035467726148887.tmp\python-social-auth
Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\Michael\pip\pip.log

[ronniebarker]

I also have this problem not in a virtual environment (but also in windows - works fine in osx)!
If I remove the symbolic links by downloading the zip and installing manually then everything goes smoothly

[omab]

Could somebody point me to a good and simple tutorial on how to setup python + pip on Windows, or put some simple steps here so I can try to reproduce it? I lack the windows experience for this.

[michaeljohnbarr]

Theoretically, this should work - http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html

[ronniebarker]

That page does work - but I think this question is more about using pip to install things not how to install pip...

[michaeljohnbarr]

According to berinhard/model_mommy@95aa15a , this author had to remove the symlink to get pip working. The issue this fixes can be found here: berinhard/model_mommy#36

[omab]

The fix above will get rid of this problem.