raise ValueError("path '%s' cannot be absolute" % pathname)

[cesarbaldeonv]

When installing via pip, this error appears:

ValueError: path '/Users/mkleehammer/dev/pyodbc/src/buffer.cpp' cannot be absolute

[brousch]

Duplicate of #77 ?

[cesarbaldeonv]

No, it's something different. Here validates the file name, before trying to find it.

[4e1e0603]

I have the same error with Python 3.5 on Windows 7 64bit machine.

[mkleehammer]

The same error on Windows seems stranger - I would have expected it to download a binary for you (wheel). My guess is it is a version I haven't uploaded for, so that would fix it.

Regarding the actual error, can someone who can duplicate this get a pip log for me? Run pip install as usual, but add --log install.log. Thanks

[friedm]

Same error on Windows 10 64 bit, python 3.5. Here's my pip log:

install.log.txt

[friedm]

I was able to install the binary directly as referenced in #77, though.

[Jandini]

Hi, I'm getting exactly the same issue. Here is my log file:
install.log.txt

[skillian]

@mkleehammer I'm sorry that I don't know anything about Python's build system or Git, but in case it helps at all: I had to download pyodbc-3.0.10.tar.gz with pip and then open the archive with 7-Zip, open the pyodbc-3.0.10.tar file in the dist folder, then open pyodbc.egg-info\SOURCES.txt and remove all of the lines starting with /Users/mkleehammer/dev/pyodbc/

After saving, 7-Zip recognizes the file has changed and re-tars, and then re-gzips the archive and I could then install pyodbc with py -3 -m pip install pyodbc-3.0.10.tar.gz

[jinksPadlock]

Did the same thing as @skillian and it worked for me as well.

[skillian]

@mkleehammer I think I fixed it by removing a call to abspath when collecting files. I was able to build an "egg-info" that had the right paths.

[sundhaug92]

@skillian Could you upload a PR?

[m3dwards]

To pip install before PR is merged:
pip install git+https://github.com/ddwo/pyodbc.git@relpath#egg=pyodbc

[atocyo]

Error still present while doing pip update from version 3 to version 4.
ValueError: path '/Users/mkleehammer/dev/pyodbc/src/buffer.cpp' cannot be absolute

[MrAech]

 ValueError: path '/home/prathi/work/confluent-kafka-python/LICENSE.txt' cannot be absolute 
 im facing this error while installing rasa

[v-chojas]

That has nothing to do with pyODBC.