Error in fil_finder setup command: use_2to3 is invalid

[DavidLanders95]

This error appears when pip installing fil_finder into a new environment. Here is the full error log.

Collecting fil-finder
Using cached fil_finder-1.7.tar.gz (4.7 MB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/andy/miniconda3/envs/FibrilPicker/bin/python3.9 -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_1bd93f1d8a6440f4abb7329f6ade9000/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_1bd93f1d8a6440f4abb7329f6ade9000/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file) if os.path.exists(file) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-xw__rmgz
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_1bd93f1d8a6440f4abb7329f6ade9000/
Complete output (1 lines):
error in fil_finder setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.

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Using cached fil_finder-1.6.tar.gz (4.7 MB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/andy/miniconda3/envs/FibrilPicker/bin/python3.9 -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_7fb7b825bd3246188209bba85430ce11/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_7fb7b825bd3246188209bba85430ce11/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file) if os.path.exists(file) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-rgg_tnh
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc/fil-finder_7fb7b825bd3246188209bba85430ce11/
Complete output (1 lines):
error in fil_finder setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.

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Using cached fil_finder-1.5.tar.gz (1.1 MB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/andy/miniconda3/envs/FibrilPicker/bin/python3.9 -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_ed1b46433eca4a70a824e8025263f7c4/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_ed1b46433eca4a70a824e8025263f7c4/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file) if os.path.exists(file) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-zf8_1kbw
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_ed1b46433eca4a70a824e8025263f7c4/
Complete output (5 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_ed1b46433eca4a70a824e8025263f7c4/setup.py", line 105, in
conf = config.ConfigParser()
AttributeError: module 'distutils.config' has no attribute 'ConfigParser'

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Using cached fil_finder-1.4.tar.gz (1.1 MB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/andy/miniconda3/envs/FibrilPicker/bin/python3.9 -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_02f70a02fb45455cbb64ebeaf143557d/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_02f70a02fb45455cbb64ebeaf143557d/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file) if os.path.exists(file) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-a3gc_jus
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_02f70a02fb45455cbb64ebeaf143557d/
Complete output (5 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_02f70a02fb45455cbb64ebeaf143557d/setup.py", line 105, in
conf = config.ConfigParser()
AttributeError: module 'distutils.config' has no attribute 'ConfigParser'

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Using cached fil_finder-1.3.tar.gz (1.1 MB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/andy/miniconda3/envs/FibrilPicker/bin/python3.9 -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_a07dd84e91b14de49caef55b7b44f5fa/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_a07dd84e91b14de49caef55b7b44f5fa/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file) if os.path.exists(file) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-il7rhqpi
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_a07dd84e91b14de49caef55b7b44f5fa/
Complete output (5 lines):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/tmp/pip-install-7sno4lc_/fil-finder_a07dd84e91b14de49caef55b7b44f5fa/setup.py", line 105, in
conf = config.ConfigParser()
AttributeError: module 'distutils.config' has no attribute 'ConfigParser'

WARNING: Discarding https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/db/b4/a0739e22bd23b4e8405efca8b414537144c5e0fc405243f897a581e9b0f9/fil_finder-1.3.tar.gz#sha256=6458d1f2d84b723dd96dc07843f8dd66e839ff0f6931312cc6f2b66b497dc1af (from https://pypi.org/simple/fil-finder/). Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement fil-finder (from versions: 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for fil-finder

[DavidLanders95]

I fixed this issue by installing an earlier version of "setuptools" with

pip install setuptools==57.5.0

as per tikitu/jsmin#33

[e-koch]

Thanks for reporting this, @DavidLanders95!

The problem was coming from not having a python 3.9 version. In case the install with the older setuptools version becomes an issue, running pip install -U fil_finder should install version 1.7.2 where this should now be fixed.