Failed to install with pip install sounddevice --user

[DaHoopster]

Not sure what happened but I see the following output after $pip install sounddevice --user. Can't move forward at all, please help.

Mac OSX 10.10.5 (Yosemite)
python 2.7.7

Downloading/unpacking sounddevice
  Downloading sounddevice-0.3.1.tar.gz
  Running setup.py egg_info for package sounddevice

    error: package directory '_sounddevice_data' does not exist
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    running egg_info

creating pip-egg-info/sounddevice.egg-info

writing requirements to pip-egg-info/sounddevice.egg-info/requires.txt

writing pip-egg-info/sounddevice.egg-info/PKG-INFO

writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/sounddevice.egg-info/top_level.txt

writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/sounddevice.egg-info/dependency_links.txt

writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/sounddevice.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'

warning: manifest_maker: standard file '-c' not found



error: package directory '_sounddevice_data' does not exist

----------------------------------------
Command python setup.py egg_info failed with error code 1 in /var/folders/t6/c_sf37fx0yj_6glzll5ttp_r0000gn/T/pip-build/sounddevice
Storing complete log in /Users/dahoopster/Library/Logs/pip.log

[mgeier]

Hmm, it seems that pip chooses the .tar.gz file instead of the more appropriate wheel file.

I don't know why this happens and I'm not sure how to fix this ...

As a first attempt, can you please try to re-install/update the newest versions of pip and setuptools?

[mgeier]

Can you please provide the output of platform.machine() on your computer?

[DaHoopster]

The output of my platform.machine() is:

x86_64

[mgeier]

OK, that doesn't seem to be the problem, did you try to upgrade pip and setuptools?

[DaHoopster]

Yes, it worked after I installed python 2.7.11 with homebrew. Thanks !