error in IfxPy setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.

[zdenop]

I tried to install IfxPy on windows 10 64bit but it fails:

pip install ifxpy
Collecting ifxpy
  Downloading IfxPy-3.0.5.tar.gz (155 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 155 kB 1.3 MB/s
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: 'C:\Python\Python39\python.exe' -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'C:\\Users\\zdeno\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-zvv5p8yr\\ifxpy_c8342a8b88f54029a6680c183faf2463\\setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\zdeno\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-zvv5p8yr\\ifxpy_c8342a8b88f54029a6680c183faf2463\\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 'C:\Users\zdeno\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-pip-egg-info-d6o7ebwt'
       cwd: C:\Users\zdeno\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-zvv5p8yr\ifxpy_c8342a8b88f54029a6680c183faf2463\
  Complete output (5 lines):
  Detected 64-bit Python
  Downloading : https://hcl-onedb.github.io/odbc/OneDB-Win64-ODBC-Driver.zip
  error in IfxPy setup command: use_2to3 is invalid.
  Extracting Windows ODBC files : https://hcl-onedb.github.io/odbc/OneDB-Win64-ODBC-Driver.zip
  Smart Triggers are enabled.
  ----------------------------------------

my python version is 3.9.9 and setuptools 58.1.0.

[jsagrera]

setuptools>=58 breaks support for use_2to3
Until there is a new version of IfxPy with all the Python2 removed, I suggest to switch back to setuptools 57.

[Marc176]

This is really annyoing - IBM/HCL should handle this as high prio....

[plitter]

The commit e68e47b might fix it I guess :)

[alinmear]

But right now, the last module version on pypi is 3.0.5, Oct 21, 2020. So we need a new pypi package with version for this to work.

[jsagrera]

Build it from source.

[alinmear]

yes already done; but for the overall process and the general public, a new version + pypi package would be the cleanest way.