scikit-learn: python setup.py develop fails

testing today (Aug 12th) master.

the traceback is the following

$ python setup.py develop
Partial import of sklearn during the build process.
/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'zip_safe'
  warnings.warn(msg)
/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'include_package_data'
  warnings.warn(msg)
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: invalid command 'develop'

In setup.py there is already some machinery to handle setuptools extra commands.

A simple fix would be to try to import setuptools at the very beginning to setup.py:

try:
    import setuptools
except ImportError:
    pass

Do you see any problem with this solution?

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State: closed
Created 12 years ago
Comments: 16 (16 by maintainers)

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2012/8/23 Alexandre Gramfort notifications@github.com

I personally have a symlink to my site-packages folder pointing to an inplace built and it works like a charm.

This is exactly what sudo pip install -e /path/to/source/folder/for/scikit-learn does for you.

Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel

ogrisel on Aug 23, 2012

I use sudo pip install -e . in the scikit-learn folder instead and it works without having to put the setuptools (optional) dependency on scikit-learn.

Olivier

ogrisel on Aug 23, 2012

can you give some motivating details on why I would be interested in python setup.py develop? I’ve never used this…

agramfort on Aug 23, 2012