setup.py imports thrift

[jasonbaker]

Pycassa's setup.py file imports thrift, which is not a good idea considering that thrift is a dependency and isn't necessarily installed when the setup.py file is run. This makes it really difficult to install pycassa from a pip requirements file as it will run python setup.py egg_info on every package before it tries to install it, even if I list it as

% pip uninstall pycassa

Uninstalling pycassa:
  /home/jason/src/apture/bin/pycassaShell
  /home/jason/src/apture/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ez_setup.py
  /home/jason/src/apture/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycassa
  /home/jason/src/apture/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pycassa-1.1.0-py2.7.egg-info
Proceed (y/n)? y
  Successfully uninstalled pycassa


% pip uninstall thrift
Uninstalling thrift:
  /home/jason/src/apture/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thrift
  /home/jason/src/apture/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thrift-0.7.0-py2.7.egg-info
Proceed (y/n)? y
  Successfully uninstalled thrift

% pip install pycassa
Downloading/unpacking pycassa
  Downloading pycassa-1.2.1.tar.gz (77Kb): 77Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package pycassa
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
      File "/home/jason/src/apture/build/pycassa/setup.py", line 27, in <module>
        import pycassa
      File "pycassa/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
        from pycassa.columnfamily import *
      File "pycassa/columnfamily.py", line 13, in <module>
        from pycassa.cassandra.ttypes import Column, ColumnOrSuperColumn,\
      File "pycassa/cassandra/ttypes.py", line 1, in <module>
        from pycassa.cassandra.c08.ttypes import *
      File "pycassa/cassandra/c08/ttypes.py", line 7, in <module>
        from thrift.Thrift import *
    ImportError: No module named thrift.Thrift
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 14, in <module>

  File "/home/jason/src/apture/build/pycassa/setup.py", line 27, in <module>

    import pycassa

  File "pycassa/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>

    from pycassa.columnfamily import *

  File "pycassa/columnfamily.py", line 13, in <module>

    from pycassa.cassandra.ttypes import Column, ColumnOrSuperColumn,\

  File "pycassa/cassandra/ttypes.py", line 1, in <module>

    from pycassa.cassandra.c08.ttypes import *

  File "pycassa/cassandra/c08/ttypes.py", line 7, in <module>

    from thrift.Thrift import *

ImportError: No module named thrift.Thrift

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1
Storing complete log in /home/jason/.pip/pip.log

[thobbs]

Definitely an unintended consequence! Thanks for reporting this.

I've fixed the issue in master and uploaded a 1.2.1-2 version to pypi that fixes this. Let me know if everything doesn't work for you.