pip error (Ubuntu 20.04)

[gruessung]

Following error occurs during pip install with python2 (and python3).

alexander@tuxedo-book:~/remarkable/remarkable-assistant$ pip install -r requirements.txt DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality. Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Collecting Cython==0.26.1 Downloading Cython-0.26.1-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (2.9 MB) |████████████████████████████████| 2.9 MB 2.4 MB/s Collecting Kivy>=1.10.0 Downloading Kivy-2.0.0.tar.gz (23.7 MB) |████████████████████████████████| 23.7 MB 9.6 MB/s Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel ... error ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /usr/bin/python2 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmpDv6E8c cwd: /tmp/pip-install-OOQ7vZ/kivy Complete output (19 lines): Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 280, in main() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 263, in main json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 114, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return hook(config_settings) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 146, in get_requires_for_build_wheel return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 127, in _get_build_requires self.run_setup() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 243, in run_setup self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 142, in run_setup exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'), locals()) File "setup.py", line 1053 def glob_paths(*patterns, excludes=('.pyc', )): ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python2 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py get_requires_for_build_wheel /tmp/tmpDv6E8c Check the logs for full command output.

[folofjc]

I get the same error with Python 2.7.18

[EroticD]

Solution to this is in the very first sentence of your command output prompt.

DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality.