Pip install fails on Windows

[organisciak]

byte-compiling C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\tests\__init__.py to __init__.cpython-35.pyc
running install_data
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-o4ji7g34\htrc\setup.py", line 45, in <module>
    tests_require=['unittest2']
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 955, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\setuptools-23.0.0-py3.5.egg\setuptools\command\install.py", line 61, in run
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 551, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 313, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\command\install_data.py", line 56, in run
    dir = convert_path(f[0])
  File "C:\Users\organis2\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\distutils\util.py", line 127, in convert_path
    raise ValueError("path '%s' cannot end with '/'" % pathname)
ValueError: path 'htrc/mock/volumes/' cannot end with '/'

[organisciak]

Presumably, this line needs os.path.join: https://github.com/htrc/HTRC-PythonSDK/blob/master/setup.py#L39

[StephenKrewson]

Encountered this again trying to pip install on Anaconda. Per Disutils docs:

data_files specifies a sequence of (directory, files) pairs in the following way:

setup(...,
data_files=[('bitmaps', ['bm/b1.gif', 'bm/b2.gif']),
('config', ['cfg/data.cfg']),
('/etc/init.d', ['init-script'])]
)

https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/setupscript.html

In keeping with the format above, the final slashes should be removed from the directory elements in the tuples at:

https://github.com/htrc/HTRC-PythonSDK/blob/master/setup.py#L40

[cassws]

This worked, thank you!! A fellow in our lab encountered the same install issue using pip install on Anaconda. We downloaded the package locally, and modified data_files to exclude the final slashes.

Changed line 87 of setup.py from:

data_files=[('htrc/mock/volumes/', ['htrc/mock/volumes/example.zip']),

('htrc/', ['htrc/.htrc.default'])],

To:

data_files=[('htrc/mock/volumes', ['htrc/mock/volumes/example.zip']),

('htrc', ['htrc/.htrc.default'])],

And then installed by running the install script in the command line:

python setup.py