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setuptools.depends.get_module_constant doesn't work in Python 3.6?

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Python 3.6.0b4 (default, Nov 22 2016, 05:30:12) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 
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>>> import setuptools             
>>> print(setuptools.__version__) 
30.1.0                            
>>> from setuptools.depends import get_module_constant                                                                   
>>> print(get_module_constant("setuptools", "__version__"))                                                              
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                       
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>                                                                                    
  File "C:\dev\timesheet\dist\Windows_NT\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\depends.py", line 164, in get_module_constant                                                                                                                        
    return extract_constant(code, symbol, default)                                                                       
  File "C:\dev\timesheet\dist\Windows_NT\python\lib\site-packages\setuptools\depends.py", line 195, in extract_constant  
    const = code.co_consts[arg]                                                                                          
IndexError: tuple index out of range

I ask because I’m trying to use python-memcached which uses this get_module_constant and fails like that. Thanks.

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joristorkcommented, Aug 18, 2017

upgrading setuptools from v36.0.1 to v36.2.7 fixed it

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joristorkcommented, Aug 18, 2017

I get a similar crash under setuptools v36.0.1, python v3.6.2rc1, pip 9.0.1:

Collecting detectlanguage==1.2.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 15))
  Using cached detectlanguage-1.2.1.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-c87dvbaa/detectlanguage/setup.py", line 9, in <module>
        version = get_module_constant('detectlanguage', '__version__'),
      File "/srv/chatbot/mentat/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/depends.py", line 164, in get_module_constant
        return extract_constant(code, symbol, default)
      File "/srv/chatbot/mentat/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setuptools/depends.py", line 195, in extract_constant
        const = code.co_consts[arg]
    IndexError: tuple index out of range