Installation failure when using Python version > 3.2

[Yenthe666]

If you run on Ubuntu 18.0.4 the zip library will fail to install. The reason behind this is one of your requirements, being wsgiref.
As noted in https://pypi.org/project/wsgiref/#description the wsgiref only works for Python versions lower than or equal to 3.2, causing this library being uninstallable on P3.3 or higher. Traceback coming from the wsgiref library:

Collecting wsgiref>=0.1.2 (from zip==0.0.2)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/41/9e/309259ce8dff8c596e8c26df86dbc4e848b9249fd36797fd60be456f03fc/wsgiref-0.1.2.zip
    ERROR: Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-7a12gwy0/wsgiref/setup.py", line 5, in <module>
        import ez_setup
      File "/tmp/pip-install-7a12gwy0/wsgiref/ez_setup/__init__.py", line 170
        print "Setuptools version",version,"or greater has been installed."
                                 ^
    SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Setuptools version",version,"or greater has been installed.")?
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-7a12gwy0/wsgiref/

Is there a change to remove this library?

[Brycey92]

Has there been any progress on this issue?

[LuciaTajuelo]

I get the same error

[kdheepak]

What are people using this package for? This project was a prototype for a client server interface that I was experimenting with, and it never went anywhere. I'm pretty sure that the dependency you want in your projects is not named zip, and is probably something else.

[savanthongvanh]

this was pulled as a dependency when i tried to pip3 install zip

[kdheepak]

zip is a builtin python module, right? You shouldn’t need to pip install it ever. I’ll try to remove this from pypi so this doesn’t happen to other people.