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Maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

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Some of our users are reporting recursion error when building python packages after upgrading to setuptools-34.0.2. Any tips on how we can figure out what is happening here?

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607164

  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/setuptools/dist.py", line 386, in finalize_options
    ep.require(installer=self.fetch_build_egg)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2318, in require
    items = working_set.resolve(reqs, env, installer, extras=self.extras)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 851, in resolve
    dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(req, ws, installer)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1123, in best_match
    return self.obtain(req, installer)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1135, in obtain
    return installer(requirement)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/setuptools/dist.py", line 417, in fetch_build_egg
    dist = self.__class__({'script_args': ['easy_install']})
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/setuptools/dist.py", line 320, in __init__
    _Distribution.__init__(self, attrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 287, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/setuptools/dist.py", line 386, in finalize_options
    ep.require(installer=self.fetch_build_egg)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2318, in require
    items = working_set.resolve(reqs, env, installer, extras=self.extras)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 844, in resolve
    env = Environment(self.entries)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1051, in __init__
    self.scan(search_path)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1080, in scan
    for dist in find_distributions(item):
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2010, in find_on_path
    path_item_entries = _by_version_descending(os.listdir(path_item))
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1994, in _by_version_descending
    return sorted(names, key=_by_version, reverse=True)
  File "/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/setuptools-34.0.2-r1/work/setuptools-34.0.2-python2_7/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1992, in _by_version
    return [packaging.version.parse(part) for part in parts]
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/packaging/version.py", line 31, in parse
    return Version(version)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

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jaracocommented, May 31, 2017

Setuptools 36 restores support for self install by vendoring dependencies again.

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FelikZcommented, Apr 14, 2017

pip install -u setuptools pip - helped me

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