Aws-cli: Wheel 0.30.0 dropped Python 2.6, 3.2, and 3.3 (SyntaxError: invalid syntax bdist_wheel.py", line 407)

[montaguethomas]

Looks like wheel just released a new version which drops support for several python versions, including 2.6: https://github.com/pypa/wheel/blob/7ca7b3552e55030b5d78cd90d53f1d99c9139f16/CHANGES.txt#L15.

I get the following error when trying to run the install -i script on a host with python 2.6.6:

Collecting PyYAML<=3.12,>=3.10 (from awscli==1.11.149)
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-build-UmW85f/PyYAML/setup.py", line 83, in <module>
        from wheel.bdist_wheel import bdist_wheel
      File "/opt/srx/bundle-install/awscli-bundle/aws/lib/python2.6/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py", line 407
        ignore=lambda x, y: {'PKG-INFO', 'requires.txt', 'SOURCES.txt',
                                       ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax

    ----------------------------------------

[djve]

I'm not sure this is the correct package. bdist_wheel.py isn't part of this project. However it's broken lots of calls.

[sethgrid]

we have broken packages too. Any suggestions on a fix?

[montaguethomas]

@sethgrid I ended switching from using the awscli bundle installer to just manually installing to a local user path:

mkdir './.awscli'
curl 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py' -o './.awscli/get-pip.py'
export PYTHONUSERBASE="$(pwd)/.awscli/"
python './.awscli/get-pip.py' --user
'./.awscli/bin/pip' install wheel==0.29.0 --user
'./.awscli/bin/pip' install awscli --user
AWSCLI="$(pwd)/bundle-install/.awscli/bin/aws"

[bfleming-ciena]

pip install wheel==0.29.0

Then retry the install

[babineaum]

if you are using virtualenv

virtualenv --system-site-packages --no-download ENV

This will make sure to NOT go out to the internet and use the local installation of 0.29.0 of wheel.

[IpassAnil]

@stonefury. Thanks! this worked for me.
install wheel==0.29.0