pip: pip cannot uninstall an editable install in some cases
Description
When a project that contains only pyproject.toml is installed in editable mode, pip cannot uninstall it.
pip version
21.3.1
Python version
3.9
OS
Ubuntu
How to Reproduce
$ git clone git@github.com:NeilGirdhar/tjax.git
Cloning into 'tjax'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1819, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (223/223), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (134/134), done.
remote: Total 1819 (delta 146), reused 134 (delta 89), pack-reused 1596
Receiving objects: 100% (1819/1819), 526.17 KiB | 3.96 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1288/1288), done.
$ pip install -e tjax
Obtaining file:///home/neil/tjax
Installing build dependencies ... done
Checking if build backend supports build_editable ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: networkx<3.0,>=2.4 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from tjax==0.14.2) (2.6.3)
Requirement already satisfied: yapf>=0.31 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from tjax==0.14.2) (0.31.0)
Requirement already satisfied: jax<0.3.0,>=0.2.21 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from tjax==0.14.2) (0.2.22)
Requirement already satisfied: optax<1,>=0 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from tjax==0.14.2) (0.0.9)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy>=1.21 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from tjax==0.14.2) (1.21.2)
Requirement already satisfied: matplotlib<4.0,>=3.3 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from tjax==0.14.2) (3.4.3)
Requirement already satisfied: colorful<0.6.0,>=0.5.4 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from tjax==0.14.2) (0.5.4)
Requirement already satisfied: absl-py in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from jax<0.3.0,>=0.2.21->tjax==0.14.2) (0.13.0)
Requirement already satisfied: opt_einsum in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from jax<0.3.0,>=0.2.21->tjax==0.14.2) (3.3.0)
Requirement already satisfied: scipy>=1.2.1 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from jax<0.3.0,>=0.2.21->tjax==0.14.2) (1.7.1)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing>=2.2.1 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib<4.0,>=3.3->tjax==0.14.2) (2.4.7)
Requirement already satisfied: pillow>=6.2.0 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib<4.0,>=3.3->tjax==0.14.2) (8.3.2)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.7 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib<4.0,>=3.3->tjax==0.14.2) (2.8.2)
Requirement already satisfied: kiwisolver>=1.0.1 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib<4.0,>=3.3->tjax==0.14.2) (1.3.2)
Requirement already satisfied: cycler>=0.10 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib<4.0,>=3.3->tjax==0.14.2) (0.10.0)
Requirement already satisfied: jaxlib>=0.1.37 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from optax<1,>=0->tjax==0.14.2) (0.1.71)
Requirement already satisfied: chex>=0.0.4 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from optax<1,>=0->tjax==0.14.2) (0.0.8)
Requirement already satisfied: six in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from absl-py->jax<0.3.0,>=0.2.21->tjax==0.14.2) (1.16.0)
Requirement already satisfied: dm-tree>=0.1.5 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from chex>=0.0.4->optax<1,>=0->tjax==0.14.2) (0.1.6)
Requirement already satisfied: toolz>=0.9.0 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from chex>=0.0.4->optax<1,>=0->tjax==0.14.2) (0.11.1)
Requirement already satisfied: flatbuffers<3.0,>=1.12 in ./.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from jaxlib>=0.1.37->optax<1,>=0->tjax==0.14.2) (2.0)
Installing collected packages: tjax
Running setup.py develop for tjax
Successfully installed tjax
$ pip uninstall tjax
WARNING: Skipping tjax as it is not installed.
$ cat /home/neil/.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages/easy-install.pth
/home/neil/tjax
This uninstalls it:
$ cat /dev/null > /home/neil/.pyenv/versions/3.9.6/lib/python3.9/site-packages/easy-install.pth
Also, for some reason, the egg in ~/tjax is called “UNKNOWN.egg-info”, but pyproject.toml clearly specifies the name “tjax”.
Code of Conduct
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About this issue
- Original URL
- State: open
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments: 23 (16 by maintainers)
@NeilGirdhar both would be compatibility-breaking changes for pip, unfortunately.
Setuptools handle all the installation when being used to install an editable, and the project name is resolved by only setuptools, pip does not do anything here.
I agree with your earlier point there’s something pip can do to make things more sensible though. It’s true that a project can be
setup.cfg-only, but asetup.cfg-only project without an explicit backend declaration inpyproject.tomlis arguably more likely to be a user error than intentionally configured.I do think there’s something pip could do here. If the pyproject.toml specifies a build backend, it should not invoke setuptools. In fact I’d go further and say that pip should not fall back to building with Setuptools unless there’s a
setup.pyfile. It’s true that Setuptools projects can be defined bysetup.cfgonly, but if that’s what the user wants, they should specify setuptools as the backend.Maybe that’s not possible, given current assumptions (projects are allowed to specify one backend, but expect to use setuptools as a fallback for editable).
There’s something else pip could do - if it’s going to install a project as editable using setuptools, it should use the name that Setuptools resolves for the package, regardless what pip might expect by reading pyproject.toml.
@NeilGirdhar As I said above, setuptools, IMHO.
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/182