On Python 2, upgrading from 0.1.0b10 to 0.1.0b11 may cause 'KeyError: Azure' error

On Python 2, it’s recommended to upgrade with the --ignore-installed flag: pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed azure-cli.

If the above isn’t followed, KeyError may appear as pip fails to install 2 required files. Add these manually with:

touch <path_to_site_packages>/azure/cli/__init__.py
touch <path_to_site_packages>/azure/cli/command_modules/__init__.py

<path_to_site_packages> is the path to the environment the CLI was installed into. For example /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages.

This is a one-time change.

Fresh installs are not affected.

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More info:

Upgrading from the previous version of the CLI to this version breaks on Python 2. It breaks because pip attempts to uninstall the old version first so https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/issues/1406 occurs again. Python 3 works because of implicit namespace package support.

[dtzar]

thanks to @brusmx I got this working via these commands: touch /usr/local/az/lib/python2.7/site-packages/azure/cli/command_modules/init.py touch /usr/local/az/lib/python2.7/site-packages/azure/cli/init.py

I am using Windows 10 bash, so perhaps the issue is unique to this when doing a curl | bash install method.

[brusMX]

I supposed so @derekbekoe What I intended to communicate is that it was unclear to determine the root of the virtualenv. Especially from what you just communicated, the last version of the code says DEFAULT_INSTALL_DIR = os.path.expanduser(os.path.join('~', 'lib', 'azure-cli')) and not really /usr/local/az

So if anybody else runs into this issue, they could realize that their virtualenv could be different.