ImportError: cannot import name Feature

[sharkguto]

I have a problem that Feature does not exist in python-setuptools
Setuptools 22.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    from distutils.core import setup, Extension, Feature
ImportError: cannot import name Feature

Any idea how to fix it?

[sharkguto]

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import re
import ast
import sys
from distutils.core import setup, Extension
from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
from distutils.errors import CCompilerError, DistutilsExecError, \
     DistutilsPlatformError


# fail safe compilation shamelessly stolen from the simplejson
# setup.py file.  Original author: Bob Ippolito

is_jython = 'java' in sys.platform
is_pypy = hasattr(sys, 'pypy_version_info')

with open('markupsafe/__init__.py') as f:
    version = ast.literal_eval(re.search(
        '^__version__\s+=\s+(.*?)$(?sm)', f.read()).group(1))



# Known errors when running build_ext.build_extension method
ext_errors = (CCompilerError, DistutilsExecError, DistutilsPlatformError)
if sys.platform == 'win32' and sys.version_info > (2, 6):
    # 2.6's distutils.msvc9compiler can raise an IOError when failing to
    # find the compiler
    ext_errors += (IOError,)
# Known errors when running build_ext.run method
run_errors = (DistutilsPlatformError,)
if sys.platform == 'darwin':
    run_errors += (SystemError,)


class BuildFailed(Exception):
    pass


class ve_build_ext(build_ext):
    """This class allows C extension building to fail."""

    def run(self):
        try:
            build_ext.run(self)
        except run_errors:
            raise BuildFailed()

    def build_extension(self, ext):
        try:
            build_ext.build_extension(self, ext)
        except ext_errors:
            raise BuildFailed()
        except ValueError:
            # this can happen on Windows 64 bit, see Python issue 7511
            if "'path'" in str(sys.exc_info()[1]): # works with Python 2 and 3
                raise BuildFailed()
            raise


def echo(msg=''):
    sys.stdout.write(msg + '\n')


readme = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'README.rst')).read()


def run_setup(with_binary):
    features = {}

    setup(
        name='MarkupSafe',
        version=version,
        url='http://github.com/pallets/markupsafe',
        license='BSD',
        author='Armin Ronacher',
        author_email='armin.ronacher@active-4.com',
        description='Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python',
        long_description=readme,
        zip_safe=False,
        classifiers=[
            'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
            'Environment :: Web Environment',
            'Intended Audience :: Developers',
            'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
            'Operating System :: OS Independent',
            'Programming Language :: Python',
            'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
            'Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content',
            'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
            'Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML'
        ],
        packages=['markupsafe'],
        test_suite='tests.suite',
        include_package_data=True,
        cmdclass={'build_ext': ve_build_ext},
        features=features,
    )


def try_building_extension():
    try:
        run_setup(True)
    except BuildFailed:
        LINE = '=' * 74
        BUILD_EXT_WARNING = 'WARNING: The C extension could not be ' \
                            'compiled, speedups are not enabled.'

        echo(LINE)
        echo(BUILD_EXT_WARNING)
        echo('Failure information, if any, is above.')
        echo('Retrying the build without the C extension now.')
        echo()

        run_setup(False)

        echo(LINE)
        echo(BUILD_EXT_WARNING)
        echo('Plain-Python installation succeeded.')
        echo(LINE)


if not (is_pypy or is_jython):
    try_building_extension()
else:
    run_setup(False)

[davidism]

I cannot reproduce your issue. With python-setuptools and python3-setuptools, from setuptools import Feature works. python-markupsafe and python3-markupsafe works. pip install markupsafe in a virtualenv works.

I'm not sure where you got that code (or why you posted the whole thing), but the line from distutils.core import Feature has never been in the code.

[boddumanohar]

I suddenly started seeing this issue:

[ec2-user@ip-10-0-2-107 ~]$ sudo su
[root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]#
[root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]# source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate
(venv) [root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]#
(venv) [root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]#
(venv) [root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]# which python
/opt/python/run/venv/bin/python
(venv) [root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]# pip install MarkupSafe==1.0
Collecting MarkupSafe==1.0
  Using cached MarkupSafe-1.0.tar.gz (14 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /opt/python/run/venv/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/pip-egg-info
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/
    Complete output (5 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/setup.py", line 6, in <module>
        from setuptools import setup, Extension, Feature
    ImportError: cannot import name 'Feature'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

[olegsel4]

I suddenly started seeing this issue:

[ec2-user@ip-10-0-2-107 ~]$ sudo su
[root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]#
[root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]# source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate
(venv) [root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]#
(venv) [root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]#
(venv) [root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]# which python
/opt/python/run/venv/bin/python
(venv) [root@ip-10-0-2-107 ec2-user]# pip install MarkupSafe==1.0
Collecting MarkupSafe==1.0
  Using cached MarkupSafe-1.0.tar.gz (14 kB)
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /opt/python/run/venv/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/pip-egg-info
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/
    Complete output (5 lines):
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-z0nif1it/MarkupSafe/setup.py", line 6, in <module>
        from setuptools import setup, Extension, Feature
    ImportError: cannot import name 'Feature'
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

Looks like it's a problem in latest 'setuptools' release:
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/master/CHANGES.rst
It's necessary to slightly downgrade 'setuptools' installation, or update markup at least 1.1.0 version

[davidism]

For those finding this issue again, setuptools finally removed some deprecated code.

This had been fixed since MarkupSafe 0.19, but for some reason a revert to that fix made it into 1.0 (d2001bb), then was removed again in 1.1. Upgrade to the latest MarkupSafe, which at this time is 1.1.1.