Re: [Docutils-users] installation issues with python3 + pipenv/pip from sourceforge SVN

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2018-06-09, Cédric Van Rompay wrote:
> Hi,

> In a previous email [1] I mentioned the following command to install
> docutils using pipenv from the sourceforge SVN repo:

>     pipenv install -e
> svn+https://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk/docutils#egg=docutils

> Well actually it does not work. When I try to import docutils I get:

>     NameError: name 'StandardError' is not defined

> From a quick Google search this is an issue of Python 2 to Python 3
> conversion (I am using Python 3).

> Previously I was using pipenv and Python 3 but getting the code from
> the Pypi repos and had no such problem.

> My guess would be that pip (same problem if using pip instead of
> pipenv, here pipenv simply calls pip) runs the "setup.py" with the
> Python 2 runtime and not the Python 3 one. This would be a bit
> surprising though, as my pip explicitly uses Python 3:

>     $ pip --version
>     pip 10.0.1 from
> /home/cedric/.local/share/virtualenvs/docutils-from-sourceforge-UNMQpB5a/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip
> (python 3.6)

> Any idea how to fix that ?

Unfortunately not. It seems to be a pip/pipenv problem rather than a
Docutils problem, though.

As a workaround, you may try to separate download and installation. 
Using the "traditional" install tools (as described in the documentation)
should work.

> Or alternatively, do you know when the Pypi repository will be updated
> to revision >=8217 ?

> [1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/mailman/docutils-users/thread/CAJKLPhz%2Bi3qfCXdD%3DKeC_0s7tJ%3D9x5nP8MDwnD-EJCTHkAetwg%40mail.gmail.com/#msg36338595

There are currently no plans for a new release as we have several bugfixes
in the pipeline waiting for approvement by David G.

Günter