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AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'packaging'

See original GitHub issue

# pip --version
pip 6.1.1 from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

# pip install supervisor --pre
Collecting supervisor
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:79: InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause certain SSL connections to fail. For more information, see https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html#insecureplatformwarning.
  InsecurePlatformWarning
  Downloading supervisor-3.1.3.tar.gz (391kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 393kB 950kB/s 
  Exception:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 246, in main
      status = self.run(options, args)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
      requirement_set.prepare_files(finder)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 345, in prepare_files
      functools.partial(self._prepare_file, finder))
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 290, in _walk_req_to_install
      more_reqs = handler(req_to_install)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 502, in _prepare_file
      abstract_dist.prep_for_dist()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 123, in prep_for_dist
      self.req_to_install.run_egg_info()
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 363, in run_egg_info
      self.setup_py, self.name,
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_install.py", line 334, in setup_py
      import setuptools  # noqa
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 11, in <module>
      from setuptools.extension import Extension
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/extension.py", line 8, in <module>
      from .dist import _get_unpatched
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 21, in <module>
      packaging = pkg_resources.packaging
  AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'packaging'

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Created 8 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:13 (4 by maintainers)

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2reactions

hectordcommented, Apr 16, 2016

I had the same issue. After upgrading “distribute” from 0.6.24 to 0.7.3, it works. (pip install --upgrade distribute)

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Bluehorncommented, Aug 24, 2015

geremih commented on May 4

print pkg_resources.file I deleted the compiled file and everything was fine.

Thanks, this just worked for me as well. Actually that file was from an old distribute installation, which I removed by

$ pip uninstall distribute
Uninstalling distribute-0.6.49:
  /opt/dynasdk/loco2-rhel6/bin/easy_install
  /opt/dynasdk/loco2-rhel6/bin/easy_install-2.7
  /opt/dynasdk/loco2-rhel6/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distribute-0.6.49-py2.7.egg
Proceed (y/n)? y
  Successfully uninstalled distribute-0.6.49

I wonder if pip could detect this case.