can't install http module

tony van der Hoff

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Nov 7, 2019, 1:46:43 PM11/7/19

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Hi,
I'm attempting to install (among other things) the "http" module on my
debian10 box, and am encountering the following problem:

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tony@tony-lx:~/_pycharm/pygallery$ python3 -m pip install http

Collecting http
Using cached
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e3/91/a9260805e532e33df273b8f7dffad5c51693f8f9ba5f86bedcf42a7f22eb/http-0.02.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-fr02g_f6/http/setup.py", line 3, in <module>
        import http
      File "/tmp/pip-install-fr02g_f6/http/http/__init__.py", line 17,
in <module>
        from request import Request
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'request'

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
/tmp/pip-install-fr02g_f6/http/

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So, I tried installing "request":

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tony@tony-lx:~/_pycharm/pygallery$ python3 -m pip install request
Collecting request
Downloading
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f1/27/7cbde262d854aedf217061a97020d66a63163c5c04e0ec02ff98c5d8f44e/request-2019.4.13.tar.gz
Collecting get (from request)
Downloading
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3f/ef/bb46f77f7220ac1b7edba0c76d810c89fddb24ddd8c08f337b9b4a618db7/get-2019.4.13.tar.gz
Collecting post (from request)
Downloading
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0f/05/bd79da5849ea6a92485ed7029ef97b1b75e55c26bc0ed3a7ec769af666f3/post-2019.4.13.tar.gz
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from request) (40.8.0)
Collecting query_string (from get->request)
Downloading
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/12/3c/412a45daf5bea9b1d06d7de41787ec4168001dfa418db7ec8723356b119f/query-string-2019.4.13.tar.gz
Collecting public (from query_string->get->request)
Downloading
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/54/4d/b40004cc6c07665e48af22cfe1e631f219bf4282e15fa76a5b6364f6885c/public-2019.4.13.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: request, get, post,
query-string, public
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for request ... done
Stored in directory:
/home/tony/.cache/pip/wheels/30/84/5f/484cfba678967ef58c16fce6890925d5c7172622f20111fbfd
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for get ... done
Stored in directory:
/home/tony/.cache/pip/wheels/c1/e3/c1/d02c8c58538853e4c9b78cadb74f6d5c5c370b48a69a7271aa
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for post ... done
Stored in directory:
/home/tony/.cache/pip/wheels/c3/c3/24/b5c132b537ab380c02d69e6bd4dec1f5db56b5fe19030473d7
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for query-string ... done
Stored in directory:
/home/tony/.cache/pip/wheels/d6/a4/78/01b20a9dc224dcc009fab669f7f27b943b8889c5150bd68d8a
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for public ... done
Stored in directory:
/home/tony/.cache/pip/wheels/23/7c/6e/f5b4e09d6596c8b8802b347e48f149031e2363368048f1347a
Successfully built request get post query-string public
Installing collected packages: public, query-string, get, post, request
Successfully installed get-2019.4.13 post-2019.4.13 public-2019.4.13
query-string-2019.4.13 request-2019.4.13
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So far, so good; retry http:

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tony@tony-lx:~/_pycharm/pygallery$ python3 -m pip install http
Collecting http
Using cached
https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e3/91/a9260805e532e33df273b8f7dffad5c51693f8f9ba5f86bedcf42a7f22eb/http-0.02.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-install-zwguez5m/http/setup.py", line 3, in <module>
        import http
      File "/tmp/pip-install-zwguez5m/http/http/__init__.py", line 17,
in <module>
        from request import Request
    ImportError: cannot import name 'Request' from 'request'
(/home/tony/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/request/__init__.py)

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
/tmp/pip-install-zwguez5m/http/

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So now I seem to have broken it. I'm not very savvy with the python
packaging system, so perhaps someone here can help me as a numpty.
Thanks in advance.

-- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:to...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Chris Angelico

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Nov 7, 2019, 2:01:08 PM11/7/19

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On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 5:47 AM tony van der Hoff <li...@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm attempting to install (among other things) the "http" module on my
> debian10 box, and am encountering the following problem:
>

Can you link to the documentation for the package you're trying to
install? Python already ships with a module called "http". You don't
need to install it.

ChrisA

Tony van der Hoff

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Nov 7, 2019, 2:33:10 PM11/7/19

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Thanks Chris, but it doesn't seem to be installed here, but maybe I'm
doing something stupid:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

import cgi
import logging
from http import cookies

[Thu Nov 07 17:29:24.002303 2019] [cgi:error] [pid 30937] [client
127.0.0.1:41912] AH01215: Traceback (most recent call last)::
/home/tony/public_html/private/pygallery/pygallery.py
[Thu Nov 07 17:29:24.002455 2019] [cgi:error] [pid 30937] [client
127.0.0.1:41912] AH01215: File
"/home/tony/public_html/private/pygallery/pygallery.py", line 6, in
<module>: /home/tony/public_html/private/pygallery/pygallery.py
[Thu Nov 07 17:29:24.002480 2019] [cgi:error] [pid 30937] [client
127.0.0.1:41912] AH01215: from http import cookies:
/home/tony/public_html/private/pygallery/pygallery.py
[Thu Nov 07 17:29:24.002502 2019] [cgi:error] [pid 30937] [client
127.0.0.1:41912] AH01215: ImportError: No module named http:
/home/tony/public_html/private/pygallery/pygallery.py

Chris Angelico

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Nov 7, 2019, 2:39:48 PM11/7/19

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On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 6:34 AM Tony van der Hoff <li...@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 07/11/2019 19:00, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 5:47 AM tony van der Hoff <li...@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> I'm attempting to install (among other things) the "http" module on my
> >> debian10 box, and am encountering the following problem:
> >>
> >
> > Can you link to the documentation for the package you're trying to
> > install? Python already ships with a module called "http". You don't
> > need to install it.
> >
> Thanks Chris, but it doesn't seem to be installed here, but maybe I'm
> doing something stupid:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
>

Ah. I wouldn't call this "something stupid", because this is a bit of
a gotcha, but there is a small problem here. In your original post,
you attempted to install using "python3 -m pip", but here your shebang
just says "python", so you're running it in Python 2.7. Replace the
shebang with "python3" (and then drop the coding cookie - Python 3
assumes UTF-8 by default) and you should be able to run your code. (At
least the import lines you posted. No idea about anything else.)

ChrisA

Tony van der Hoff

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Nov 8, 2019, 4:43:24 AM11/8/19

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Excellent catch, Chris. Thank you so much. I changed the version while
tracking down another problem, and forgot to restore it.
It should have been obvious, but somehow it escaped me.

Thanks again, Tony.