Aws-cli: Broken docutils==0.15

[alexpekurovsky]

Hi community,

Today docutils were updated to 0.15 (https://pypi.org/project/docutils/#history) and it breaks awscli running on Python 2.

# aws --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/aws", line 19, in <module>
    import awscli.clidriver
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awscli/clidriver.py", line 36, in <module>
    from awscli.help import ProviderHelpCommand
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awscli/help.py", line 20, in <module>
    from docutils.core import publish_string
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/core.py", line 246
    print('\n::: Runtime settings:', file=self._stderr)
                                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[ehudl]

Yes, workaround using
pip install docutils==0.14
after the installation of the aws cli

[schammah]

Yes, workaround using
pip install docutils==0.14
after the installation of the aws cli

yup using the same workaround

[viavokal]

good one ;)

[schampseix]

all the aws cli looks broken with last version of docutils yep ..

[dstufft]

Just a quick update to let everyone know that a fix is in the works to deal with what appears to be docutils releasing Python 3 only syntax to Python 2 users.

[ntman4real]

Where it is being tracked, FYI.
https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/365/

[benwilson512]

Is it possible for aws-cli to pin dependencies in a way to avoid this?

[vhmth]

Seems like this is now fixed for the bootstrapping code for opsworks instances

[mccartney]

Thanks for solving this.
So how was the fix distributed? Did 0.15 got re-released with the fix?
As I get conflicting signals on whether 0.15 works or not.

[ViktorHaag]

The updated py2 wheel has now been posted; I believe that the team's assessment was that a build order problem caused the py2 wheel to be built as py3.

[designgrill]

For souls who don't dabble in python and pip much — given a fresh install of awscli fixes this, you can force an install by calling pip install --ignore-installed awscli

[rogerganga]

If using Anaconda, just go for
conda install -c conda-forge awscli

I did this and it installed the stable awscli version. Saves your time.