Installing pypiwin32 Fails; Python 2.x Print Statement?

Details

Installing pypiwin32 during RTD build fails due to what appears to be a Python 2 print statement. It collects the package successfully, but when it tries to install it I get the following message during the process:

Collecting pypiwin32
  Downloading pypiwin32-219.zip (4.8 MB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/bruker-control/envs/latest/bin/python -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-1zxucya9/pypiwin32_977510538cc24a8fbce43efbe8ebacda/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-1zxucya9/pypiwin32_977510538cc24a8fbce43efbe8ebacda/setup.py'"'"';f = getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__) if os.path.exists(__file__) else io.StringIO('"'"'from setuptools import setup; setup()'"'"');code = f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-ydauo4rq
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-1zxucya9/pypiwin32_977510538cc24a8fbce43efbe8ebacda/
    Complete output (6 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-1zxucya9/pypiwin32_977510538cc24a8fbce43efbe8ebacda/setup.py", line 121
        print "Building pywin32", pywin32_version
                               ^
    SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Building pywin32", pywin32_version)?

I read up that the version I’m using here was built for Python 2 on the package’s pypi page, but it’s the version that works with the API I’m using to control a cool microscope.

Also, RTD is great! Thank you for all your work maintainers!

• Read the Docs project URL: https://bruker-control.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Build URL (if applicable): https://readthedocs.org/projects/bruker-control/builds/14893925/
• Read the Docs username (if applicable): jmdelahanty

Expected Result

Installation of pypiwin32

Actual Result

Error message during build as shown above.

[jmdelahanty]

That makes sense! I was looking for a way to build it without mocking the imports. I’ve tried mocking before, but didn’t seem to get it working properly. I’ll give that a shot today and see if I make any progress. I’ll update here if I run into any issues. Thank you so much for your help!

[jmdelahanty]

I have solved the problem! It turns out I was mocking things incorrectly because in my module I use win32com to actually use pywin32!

When I have: autodoc_mock_imports = ['win32com']

My docs build like they’re supposed to!

I’ll close the issue with this. Thanks for all your help everyone!