requests gspread library fails to pip install because dependency requests library missing

[mosesmc52]

Hi,

I regularly install this library in to a virtual environment using the pip install command. After last Friday, the gspread library fails to install because it didn't pre-install the dependent requests library. Here is the stack trace error I see. This is the command line argument I use to install the gspread library.

pip install https://github.com/burnash/gspread/archive/master.zip

Moses

File "/var/folders/dl/jt5zsvy91gx3g8_pflz9c5680000gp/T/pip-zaKdHf-build/setup.py", line 6, in

import gspread

File "gspread/init.py", line 21, in

from .client import Client, login, authorize

File "gspread/client.py", line 19, in

from .httpsession import HTTPSession, HTTPError

File "gspread/httpsession.py", line 11, in

import requests

ImportError: No module named requests

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Cleaning up...
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /var/folders/dl/jt5zsvy91gx3g8_pflz9c5680000gp/T/pip-zaKdHf-build
Storing debug log for failure in /Users/user/.pip/pip.log

[msuozzo]

This is a consequence of the way in which the version string is centralized in gspread's __init__.py file. setup.py wants to import gspread to get the __version__ string for the module but __init__.py also imports all of the modules' exports (e.g. from .client import Client, login, authorize). This import statement runs import requests which has not yet been triggered by the setup() function later in setup.py.

A likely consequence of this is that gspread cannot be imported from setup.py. This means the versions string will need to live in two places (not the worst thing in the world).

@burnash: Do you have a preference as to how this should be handled?
Unfortunately, this is one of the many costs of adding dependencies :-(

[msuozzo]

Never mind. requests to the rescue:

version = ''
with open('requests/__init__.py', 'r') as fd:
  version = re.search(r'^__version__\s*=\s*[\'"]([^\'"]*)[\'"]',
                       fd.read(), re.MULTILINE).group(1)

[msuozzo]

Thanks a ton for reporting this @mosesmc52!

[mosesmc52]

Thanks for responding promptly. Anytime, Gspread is a great tool.

[burnash]

@mosesmc52 many thanks for spotting this.
@msuozzo Totally agree with this. Many other projects handle the version string in a similar way including Flask.

Talking about versions, I believe it's time to bump up the gspread's minor version to 3 and release the lib on the PyPI.

[ilprincipecolo]

OK. Solution is found. Need to point full path:

import sys
sys.path.append('/home/usename/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/')
import gspread

from https://www.pythonanywhere.com/forums/topic/13265/