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can't copy 'docx/templates/default-docx-template' on pip install python-docx

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Hi, I’m not sure if this is the right place for posting this but, I’ve installed the package using pip install python-docx, and tried to execute the first tutorial. Then got this error:

"Package not found at '%s'" % pkg_file docx.opc.exceptions.PackageNotFoundError: Package not found at '/home/----/anaconda3/envs/myenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/docx/templates/default-docx-template'

Then I went to the folder and there is no default-docx-template folder. I checked here on GitHub and it’s there.

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Created 5 years ago
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scannycommented, Jan 10, 2019

UPDATE: Short answer is to update your setuptools:

$ pip install -U setuptools

Hmm, could be a problem with the MANIFEST.ini, that directory was just added on the last release which makes me suspect. I’ll check it out here …

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K4zukicommented, Jan 10, 2019

@RogueRaider Could you please provide setuptools version?

I was facing similar situation.

Failing on following setup

OS: Ubuntu 16.04
Python: 2.7.10 and 3.5.2
setuptools: 20.7.0

It worked on following setup

OS: MacOS
Python: 3.6.5
setuptools: 40.6.2

On ubuntu by updating setuptools pip install -U setuptools it worked.

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