Urllib3: Version registers as 'dev' in install from source

Created on 15 Jun 2018 · 3Comments · Source: urllib3/urllib3

Hi,

I have no root, no internet and no proxy. Therefore, trying to install urllib3 in venv from source (downloaded as urllib3-master.zip from GitHub).
When I do that, urllib3's version registers to be 'dev', which makes it impossible to intall some packages, plus ones that install complain that urllib3's version is not valid (but work anyway).

Could you please help me make it register with its actual version?

OS RHEL 7.4
Kernel 3.10.0-693.11.1.el7.x86_64
Python 3.5.1

$ pip3 freeze
certifi==2018.4.16
chardet==4.0.0
elasticsearch==6.2.0
idna==2.6
pyOpenSSL==18.1.0.dev0
requests==2.18.4
six==1.11.0
urllib3===dev

(ingestion) ~/packages/urllib3-master> $ python setup.py install
/opt/rh/rh-python35/root/usr/lib64/python3.5/distutils/dist.py:261: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'python_requires'
warnings.warn(msg)
/home/kult/apps/ingestion/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:294: UserWarning: The version specified ('dev') is an invalid version, this may not work as expected with newer versions of setuptools, pip, and PyPI. Please see PEP 440 for more details.
"details." % self.metadata.version
running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
creating urllib3.egg-info
writing dependency_links to urllib3.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing top-level names to urllib3.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing urllib3.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing requirements to urllib3.egg-info/requires.txt
writing manifest file 'urllib3.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest file 'urllib3.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under directory 'docs/_build'
writing manifest file 'urllib3.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib
creating build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/__init__.py -> build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/_collections.py -> build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/connection.py -> build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/connectionpool.py -> build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/exceptions.py -> build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/fields.py -> build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/filepost.py -> build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/poolmanager.py -> build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/request.py -> build/lib/urllib3
copying urllib3/response.py -> build/lib/urllib3
creating build/lib/urllib3/packages
copying urllib3/packages/__init__.py -> build/lib/urllib3/packages
copying urllib3/packages/ordered_dict.py -> build/lib/urllib3/packages
copying urllib3/packages/six.py -> build/lib/urllib3/packages
creating build/lib/urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname
copying urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname/__init__.py -> build/lib/urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname
copying urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname/_implementation.py -> build/lib/urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname
creating build/lib/urllib3/packages/backports
copying urllib3/packages/backports/__init__.py -> build/lib/urllib3/packages/backports
copying urllib3/packages/backports/makefile.py -> build/lib/urllib3/packages/backports
creating build/lib/urllib3/contrib
copying urllib3/contrib/__init__.py -> build/lib/urllib3/contrib
copying urllib3/contrib/appengine.py -> build/lib/urllib3/contrib
copying urllib3/contrib/ntlmpool.py -> build/lib/urllib3/contrib
copying urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py -> build/lib/urllib3/contrib
copying urllib3/contrib/securetransport.py -> build/lib/urllib3/contrib
copying urllib3/contrib/socks.py -> build/lib/urllib3/contrib
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copying urllib3/contrib/_securetransport/__init__.py -> build/lib/urllib3/contrib/_securetransport
copying urllib3/contrib/_securetransport/bindings.py -> build/lib/urllib3/contrib/_securetransport
copying urllib3/contrib/_securetransport/low_level.py -> build/lib/urllib3/contrib/_securetransport
creating build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/__init__.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/connection.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/queue.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/request.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/response.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/retry.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/ssl_.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/timeout.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/url.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
copying urllib3/util/wait.py -> build/lib/urllib3/util
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copying build/lib/urllib3/__init__.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
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copying build/lib/urllib3/connectionpool.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/exceptions.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/fields.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/filepost.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/poolmanager.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/request.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/response.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
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copying build/lib/urllib3/packages/backports/makefile.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3/packages/backports
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copying build/lib/urllib3/contrib/ntlmpool.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3/contrib
copying build/lib/urllib3/contrib/pyopenssl.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3/contrib
copying build/lib/urllib3/contrib/securetransport.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3/contrib
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copying build/lib/urllib3/contrib/_securetransport/__init__.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3/contrib/_securetransport
copying build/lib/urllib3/contrib/_securetransport/bindings.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3/contrib/_securetransport
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copying build/lib/urllib3/util/connection.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3/util
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zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
urllib3.packages.__pycache__.six.cpython-35: module references __path__
creating dist
creating 'dist/urllib3-dev-py3.5.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' to it
removing 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' (and everything under it)
Processing urllib3-dev-py3.5.egg
removing '/home/kult/apps/ingestion/lib/python3.5/site-packages/urllib3-dev-py3.5.egg' (and everything under it)
creating /home/kult/apps/ingestion/lib/python3.5/site-packages/urllib3-dev-py3.5.egg
Extracting urllib3-dev-py3.5.egg to /home/kult/apps/ingestion/lib/python3.5/site-packages
urllib3 dev is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Installed /home/kult/apps/ingestion/lib/python3.5/site-packages/urllib3-dev-py3.5.egg
Processing dependencies for urllib3===dev
Finished processing dependencies for urllib3===dev

$ python
Python 3.5.1 (default, Sep 15 2016, 08:30:32)
[GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import urllib3
>>> urllib3.__version__
'dev'
>>>

Best regards,
Albert.

Source

AlKult

Most helpful comment

Hi @AlKult, if your zip file contains urllib3 as a git repository, you should be able to navigate to any tag via git checkout <tag> (e.g. git checkout 1.23). This will have a __version__ assigned in __init__.py.

If you do not have a copy of the git repository, you'll want to download a copy of a released version. You can do this similarly by navigating to "tags" tab under the "branch" dropdown on the UI. Then download a copy.

If all else fails, you can modify the __version__ yourself to the nearest version. Just realize this version won't be supportable since the urllib3 maintainers won't have context on what version you're actually using.

nateprewitt on 15 Jun 2018

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nateprewitt on 15 Jun 2018

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Hi @nateprewitt! Thanks for the prompt response!
I don't have git on this machine either. I'm on a server wherein almost nothing is installed, therefore I have to operate in this unusual circumstances.
I downloaded the master zip just this morning, therefore I'd think it's 1.23 that I have here.
I've just manually modified urllib3/__init__.py and re-installed the package. It seems to have registered correctly at this time. Not sure how to treat this though. Is it just a one-off issue or something that devs need to further look into?

$ grep __version__ ./urllib3/__init__.py
__version__ = '1.23'

$ python setup.py install
running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing top-level names to urllib3.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing urllib3.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing requirements to urllib3.egg-info/requires.txt
writing dependency_links to urllib3.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
reading manifest file 'urllib3.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under directory 'docs/_build'
writing manifest file 'urllib3.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
copying urllib3/__init__.py -> build/lib/urllib3
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/_collections.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/connection.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/connectionpool.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/exceptions.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/fields.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/filepost.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/poolmanager.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/request.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
copying build/lib/urllib3/response.py -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/urllib3
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$ python
Python 3.5.1 (default, Sep 15 2016, 08:30:32)
[GCC 4.8.3 20140911 (Red Hat 4.8.3-9)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import urllib3
>>> urllib3.__version__
'1.23'

Best regards,
Albert.

AlKult on 15 Jun 2018

It's a pretty niche issue, in my opinion. There are several ways to get what you want here:

Use git and checkout a specific tag.
Use github and download a specific release that corresponds to a tag.
Use PyPI and download a tar.gz or whl that corresponds to a release.

HEAD on master will always be dev and that's intentional. It prevents users from accidentally installing urllib3 from HEAD and thinking it's some other released version.

I'm going to go ahead and close this, but happy to keep chatting if you need more help! :)