encutils no longer published separately from cssutils

[Andrew Horwitz]

On trying to install Merengue with the requirements.txt list:

Downloading/unpacking encutils (from merengue)

Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement encutils (from merengue)

Cleaning up...

No distributions at all found for encutils (from merengue)

Looking at the encutils site (http://cthedot.de/encutils/):

Encutils (from April 2014) is only available as part of cssutils. Install the latest version via pip: pip install cssutils .

Installing by commenting out encutils (and still installing cssutils under "Django applications") works and creating a project works as well, but running syncdb --migrate throws this:

$ python manage.py syncdb --migrate

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "manage.py", line 70, in <module>

    execute_manager(settings)

  File "merengueTest/merengueTest/merengue/base/management/__init__.py", line 166, in execute_manager

    utility.execute()

  File "merengueTest/merengueTest/merengue/base/management/__init__.py", line 136, in execute

    command = self.fetch_command(subcommand)

  File "merengueTest/merengueTest/merengue/base/management/__init__.py", line 87, in fetch_command

    klass = django_management.load_command_class(app_name, subcommand)

  File "merengueTest/merengueEnv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 67, in load_command_class

    module = import_module('%s.management.commands.%s' % (app_name, name))

  File "merengueTest/merengueEnv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module

    __import__(name)

  File "merengueTest/merengueEnv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/South-0.7.3-py2.7.egg/south/management/commands/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>

    import django.template.loaders.app_directories

  File "merengueTest/merengueEnv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/django/template/loaders/app_directories.py", line 23, in <module>

    raise ImproperlyConfigured('ImportError %s: %s' % (app, e.args[0]))

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: ImportError sorl.thumbnail: cannot import name smart_text

Is there a workaround available?

[Walter Prins]

Just ran into this myself.  See here:

https://github.com/mariocesar/sorl-thumbnail/issues/255

In short: Edit /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sorl/thumbnail/helpers.py

Change 

from django.utils.encoding import smart_text

To

try:
    from django.utils.encoding import smart_text
except ImportError:
    from django.utils.encoding import smart_unicode as smart_text

 Fixed!