Boto3: Installing on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

[LosMyke]

When attempting to install on a bare Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) laptop I get the following error. Not seeing documentation on how to get around.

User-MacBook-Air:~ user$ sudo pip install boto3
[..output..]
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/basecommand.py", line 211, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/commands/install.py", line 311, in run
    root=options.root_path,
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_set.py", line 640, in install
    requirement.uninstall(auto_confirm=True)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_install.py", line 716, in uninstall
    paths_to_remove.remove(auto_confirm)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/req/req_uninstall.py", line 125, in remove
    renames(path, new_path)
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip-7.1.2-py2.7.egg/pip/utils/__init__.py", line 315, in renames
    shutil.move(old, new)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 302, in move
    copy2(src, real_dst)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 131, in copy2
    copystat(src, dst)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 103, in copystat
    os.chflags(dst, st.st_flags)
OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/pip-Xfm7d1-uninstall/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info'

[rayluo]

I don't have an OS X El Capitan to test, but it seems googling "pip OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted" will give us this link in the first result. Hope that helps.

[chadneal]

This might work if you need to use the system python over brew's.
sudo pip install --ignore-installed six boto3

[mrfoobar1]

sudo pip install --ignore-installed six boto3

Works on OS X El Capitan thanks!

[bestbear]

Thank you!

[marcpage]

sudo pip install --ignore-installed six boto3

That got the install to work. When I run a script that uses boto3, I get:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Number'

at /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/decimal.py

The line of code says:

Register Decimal as a kind of Number (an abstract base class).

However, do not register it as Real (because Decimals are not

interoperable with floats).

_numbers.Number.register(Decimal)

[cyril94440]

Same for me @marcpage
Any suggestion?

[cagriy]

thanks @chadneal ! All good.

[ceecer1]

awesome! thanks @chadneal

[deepanshpahwa]

@chadneal
Thank yo so much man

[Msharma3]

sudo pip install --ignore-installed six boto3
after installing boto3 i am getting below error.

from test.datetimetester import MINUTE
ImportError: No module named datetimetester

[jonahadmin]

As an experiment, instead of using pip I used easy_install, and that worked perfectly.
sudo easy_install boto3