slugify dependency is not allowing to install kaggle

slugify is an old library that doesn’t support python3, so I don’t get why kaggle, which is a python3 package, is requiring it. When trying to install via pypi, I get this error:

Collecting slugify
  Using cached slugify-0.0.1.tar.gz (1.2 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-y15tsfxk/slugify/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-y15tsfxk/slugify/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-69zmzca8
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-y15tsfxk/slugify/
    Complete output (11 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-y15tsfxk/slugify/setup.py", line 26, in <module>
        version          = get_version(),
      File "/tmp/pip-install-y15tsfxk/slugify/setup.py", line 20, in get_version
        data = read_from(rel_file('src', 'slugify.py'))
      File "/tmp/pip-install-y15tsfxk/slugify/setup.py", line 15, in read_from
        return fp.read()
      File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
        return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 254: ordinal not in range(128)
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[linzino7]

I didn’t continue to investigate how to solve, as I opted to use kaggle web page for submitting. @quhb2455 @kalessin I had same error with you.

The followings are my solution:

1. Clone kaggle-api master branch to your PC.

    git clone https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api.git
   

2. Mark slugify dependency package from setup.py in kaggle-api.git folder.

    'six >= 1.10',^M
    'certifi',^M
    'python-dateutil',^M
    'requests',^M
    'tqdm',^M
    'python-slugify',^M
    #'slugify',^M
    'urllib3',^M
   

3. Install slugify by pip3. This is python3 version.

   pip3 install python-slugify
   

4. install kaggle-api in folder.

   pip3 install -e .
   

Done.

My environment:

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Python 3.6.9

[quhb2455]

@kalessin Hi! Finally, I figured out this problem. when i installed Tensorflow object detection api, this error came out. It was exactly same error message with your error

python3 doesn’t support slugiy-0.0.1 , so i searched slugify-0.0.1.tar.gz file on google and installed it by myself after then Tensorflow object detection api work!

i hope that this way will help you

here is my environment python 3.6 tensorflow 2.3