pipenv: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 i

Pipenv install is trying to install a library on a different python version.

I set pipenv to python 3.4.2 version, however, when I run pip install I get the following error :

And as you can see it’s trying to install a library on python2.7 (default python version). Steps:

pip install pipenv cd /path-project pipenv --three pipenv install

Got the error

pipenv --version

pipenv, version 6.2.1

Pipfile.lock

{
    "_meta": {
        "hash": {
            "sha256": "664809faca877e7d72716808d6be74ced6c98b258f95e418b5ee4a4b57762626"
        },
        "host-environment-markers": {
            "implementation_name": "cpython",
            "implementation_version": "3.4.2",
            "os_name": "posix",
            "platform_machine": "x86_64",
            "platform_python_implementation": "CPython",
            "platform_release": "16.7.0",
            "platform_system": "Darwin",
            "platform_version": "Darwin Kernel Version 16.7.0: Thu Jun 15 17:36:27 PDT 2017; root:xnu-3789.70.16~2/RELEASE_X86_64",
            "python_full_version": "3.4.2",
            "python_version": "3.4",
            "sys_platform": "darwin"
        },
        "pipfile-spec": 3,
        "requires": {},
        "sources": [
            {
                "url": "https://pypi.python.org/simple",
                "verify_ssl": true
            }
        ]
    },
    "default": {
    ....

About this issue

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions: 11
Comments: 32 (20 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

sounds like you’re having trouble installing a python module — not a pipenv problem 😉

kennethreitz on Sep 14, 2017

Command “python setup.py egg_info” failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-ZPv0av/cairocffi/

I am facing this issue please help.

hp98us on Aug 19, 2018

@techalchemy how do we get better error logs from this? I’m passing --verbose and still just getting this pipenv.patched.notpip._internal.exceptions.InstallationError with no other output.

grisaitis on Oct 23, 2019

Nice! Replaced my old configuration with pipenv check.

sobolevn on Sep 20, 2017

macOS Sierra upgrading pyobjc-core also worked for me.

jeffreyjharris on Mar 9, 2018

for me, on Mac OSX High Sierra, what fixed my issue with getting the error message: Command “python setup.py egg_info” failed with error code 1

sudo pip install pyobjc-core sudo pip install pyobjc

StupacShakur82 on Dec 22, 2017

Also, safety is built into pipenv now! You can just run pipenv check and it’ll run safety for you 😃

kennethreitz on Sep 20, 2017

None, other than running $ pipenv lock --verbose

kennethreitz on Sep 20, 2017

we have significantly better error handling around this in an upcoming release

that said, you would need to provide additional detail to troubleshoot your actual problem which may or may not be resolved by that error handling.

techalchemy on Aug 19, 2018

Hi, this happened to me as well on package psycopg2. The requirements.txt contained a ref to pscopg2==2.6.2. I have version 2.7.2. When I updated the requirements.txt to ==2.7.2, pipenv install worked fine.

GaramNick on Oct 17, 2017

Yeah, i’m not sure there’s anything we can do about that. I’d raise the issue with pip-tools, see if they have any answers.

kennethreitz on Sep 20, 2017