Unable to build wheel pyhcl, missing ply.lex

`mkvirtualenv foo-bar-fudge-tf New python executable in /home/matthbak/Apps/virtualenvs/foo-bar-fudge-tf/bin/python Installing setuptools, pip, wheel…done. virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/matthbak/Apps/virtualenvs/foo-bar-fudge-tf/bin/predeactivate virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/matthbak/Apps/virtualenvs/foo-bar-fudge-tf/bin/postdeactivate virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/matthbak/Apps/virtualenvs/foo-bar-fudge-tf/bin/preactivate virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/matthbak/Apps/virtualenvs/foo-bar-fudge-tf/bin/postactivate virtualenvwrapper.user_scripts creating /home/matthbak/Apps/virtualenvs/foo-bar-fudge-tf/bin/get_env_details (foo-bar-fudge-tf) (0) matthbak@matthbak-laptop ~/Projects/cpsre/terraform-modules/foo-bar-fudge-tf $ pip install pyhcl DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won’t be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7. Looking in indexes: … Collecting pyhcl Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/8c/90/411f698550155532a1375d0367da08c2d0ecc922d4c0362bd4236893238b/pyhcl-0.3.12.tar.gz Collecting ply<4,>=3.8 (from pyhcl) Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a3/58/35da89ee790598a0700ea49b2a66594140f44dec458c07e8e3d4979137fc/ply-3.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl Building wheels for collected packages: pyhcl Building wheel for pyhcl (setup.py) … error Complete output from command /home/matthbak/Apps/virtualenvs/foo-bar-fudge-tf/bin/python -u -c “import setuptools, tokenize;file=‘/tmp/pip-install-q2Up_m/pyhcl/setup.py’;f=getattr(tokenize, ‘open’, open)(file);code=f.read().replace(‘\r\n’, ‘\n’);f.close();exec(compile(code, file, ‘exec’))” bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-Pt1ol2 --python-tag cp27: running bdist_wheel running build running build_py Generating parse table… Traceback (most recent call last): File “<string>”, line 1, in <module> File “/tmp/pip-install-q2Up_m/pyhcl/setup.py”, line 101, in <module> “Topic :: Text Processing”, File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py”, line 151, in setup dist.run_commands() File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 953, in run_commands self.run_command(cmd) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File “/home/matthbak/Apps/virtualenvs/foo-bar-fudge-tf/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py”, line 192, in run self.run_command(‘build’) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py”, line 326, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build.py”, line 128, in run self.run_command(cmd_name) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py”, line 326, in run_command self.distribution.run_command(command) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 972, in run_command cmd_obj.run() File “/tmp/pip-install-q2Up_m/pyhcl/setup.py”, line 39, in run self.execute(_pre_install, (), msg=“Generating parse table…”) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py”, line 349, in execute util.execute(func, args, msg, dry_run=self.dry_run) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/util.py”, line 309, in execute func(*args) File “/tmp/pip-install-q2Up_m/pyhcl/setup.py”, line 31, in _pre_install import hcl File “/tmp/pip-install-q2Up_m/pyhcl/src/hcl/init.py”, line 1, in <module> from .api import dumps, load, loads File “/tmp/pip-install-q2Up_m/pyhcl/src/hcl/api.py”, line 2, in <module> from .parser import HclParser File “/tmp/pip-install-q2Up_m/pyhcl/src/hcl/parser.py”, line 4, in <module> from .lexer import Lexer File “/tmp/pip-install-q2Up_m/pyhcl/src/hcl/lexer.py”, line 3, in <module> import ply.lex as lex ImportError: No module named ply.lex

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Failed building wheel for pyhcl Running setup.py clean for pyhcl Failed to build pyhcl Installing collected packages: ply, pyhcl Running setup.py install for pyhcl … done Successfully installed ply-3.11 pyhcl-0.3.12 `

[marcjay]

Is there any update on this issue?

[tsiq-brian]

I think I found a workaround for this issue until it can be solved the proper way. If installed via pip using the github url, it won’t produce an error during table generation.

(test-pyhcl) % pip3 freeze
(test-pyhcl) % pip3 install git+https://github.com/virtuald/pyhcl.git@0.3.12#egg=pyhcl
Collecting pyhcl from git+https://github.com/virtuald/pyhcl.git@0.3.12#egg=pyhcl
  Cloning https://github.com/virtuald/pyhcl.git (to revision 0.3.12) to /private/var/folders/xw/7w2ry0l91f14wl7vl2ds0xfh0000gn/T/pip-install-k37x8fnn/pyhcl
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... done
Collecting ply<4,>=3.8 (from pyhcl)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a3/58/35da89ee790598a0700ea49b2a66594140f44dec458c07e8e3d4979137fc/ply-3.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Building wheels for collected packages: pyhcl
  Building wheel for pyhcl (PEP 517) ... done
  Stored in directory: /private/var/folders/xw/7w2ry0l91f14wl7vl2ds0xfh0000gn/T/pip-ephem-wheel-cache-t7thz65d/wheels/70/27/06/77de7cfd11f5e5bd1f905d666c0e0ead0965ee3b5cf165aba4
Successfully built pyhcl
Installing collected packages: ply, pyhcl
Successfully installed ply-3.11 pyhcl-0.3.12
(test-pyhcl) %